Word: bill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Looking at Bill Boyle, Truman declared: "I am as happy as I can be, of course, that my lifetime friend-I have known him ever since he was a kid; I knew his mother before him and she was one of the best Democrats that Missouri ever produced-is the national chairman of the Democratic Party." Bill Boyle beamed...
Meat & Drink. Shrewd, hard-bitten Bill Boyle believes in machine politics and the everlasting value of the faithful ward-heeler. He was a precinct captain himself before he could vote, rose through the ranks of the Boss Pendergast machine to acting director of police (TIME, Feb. 21). In 1941, Senator Harry Truman appointed him to the counsel staff of his war investigating committee, later made him his personal secretary. Last year Boyle plotted Truman's whistle-stop campaign, insisted on going after what proved to be the decisive farm and labor vote. An Irish-Catholic politician...
Minority Leader Kenneth Wherry got down to the point. Was there any reason why the Senate couldn't wind up its affairs in another month? Lucas read off a list of the measures still facing the Senate: $14.9 billion worth of appropriations, reciprocal trade, MAP, a farm bill. If the Senate could dispose of all that within a month, said Lucas, "I will eat a hat from any one of the stores in the Senator's city of Omaha, Nebraska...
...medical services so enthusiastically (the state paid $258 for the removal of 43 embarrassing warts from one elderly woman's face) that last week the state medical board was introducing a rigid screening of patients in an attempt to reduce the state's gargantuan hospital and drug bill. Meanwhile, the Washington Pension Union, an organization with limitless gall, was calling for even higher pensions for the future...
...curtain mercifully fell on the hammed-up Hamlet, a voice from the balcony yelled: "Author, author!" A stir ran through the audience aboard Cap'n J. W. (Bill) Menke's Goldenrod, last of the Mississippi's showboats, and up to the footlights stepped one of William Shakespeare's belated collaborators, Cap'n Billy Bryant, onetime showboat king of the Ohio. Hollered the voice: "Shoot him dead...