Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bess Truman tried cutting the staff (which runs between 25 and 30), gave up because the housework didn't get done. Feeding the help, plus the family and friends, meant that Truman must pay for about 2,000 meals a month. In the Roosevelt era the monthly food bill sometimes soared to $7,000; Bess Truman has cut it to about $2,000. On quiet nights with the family, Harry Truman often gets leftovers...
Give Him the Simple Life. Oregon's Republican Wayne Morse was the most overwrought Senator of the week. What brought him to his feet was the bill to give the President a raise. "There is entirely too much high living in Washington," he said. He saw a trend, reflected in the President's increased expense account, "resulting in an overemphasis of the social aspects of government service . . . Cocktail parties that cost from $500 to $1,000 should not be considered as being a necessary expense or social obligation of ... public office in this country . . .What Washington D.C. needs...
Indiana's ponderous Republican Homer Capehart sensed a "sinister motive" in the bill. Georgia's Democratic Walter George saw nothing sinister about it but slyly suggested: Why not tax such expense allowance? "If the tax is too burdensome," he said, "when the President asks us to raise $4 billion additional taxes, he will have a gentle reminder of what it all amounts...
Shortly after the start of the second stanza Jack Carman slid head first into the boards behind the Northeastern goal and was put out of action for the rest of the period. Later, wing Bill Garrity and Huskie Captain Deke Kerrivan astounded the crowd with twenty foot headlong slides into the boards...
Particularly impressive was the work of the first line on rebounds, and Bill Garrity's goal came when he slapped in the rebound after a shot by Dave Key had been blocked. Line Score Period I 2 3--t HARVARD 2 2 5--9 NORTHEASTERN...