Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cord's hero was Joe McMillin's brother, Congressman Benton McMillin, a rock of old-line Democracy, a low-tariff man, an advocate of a high income tax law on those millionaires back East. In Bent's buggy at campaign time, young Hull absorbed demo cratic doctrine. It was Bent McMillin who later drafted the first U. S. income tax law, killed by the Supreme Court; and it was Cordell Hull, many years later, who drafted the income tax law (1913) that stands today...
...face, rocklike when he is intent, the mouth sad and downbitten when he isn't smiling, bent steadily over the pages scrawled in his bold vertical hand...
...keel, only his altimeter to tell him when he was close to the unpredictable earth. Harold Neely's luck equaled his pluck. The bomber missed all the gullies, fences, poles, wires, barns, houses, livestock and civilians in that part of Kansas, glided into an open field. Damage : two bent propellers, a crumpled nose. Unhurt, Pilot Neely discovered that Lieut. John O. Neal and Private Henry Zielinski had parachuted safely down, three miles away. Unseen by Harold Neely, the fourth man in the ship jumped, fumbled with mittened hands at the rip cord of his chute, pulled it too late...