Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drawing disgruntled Southern Democrats into his well-organized G.O.P. camp, he was able to harry the Roosevelt Administration and kill many a New Deal bill. Wrote the late Columnist Raymond Clapper: "Martin has received the reluctant but spectacular tribute of being the first Republican since the middle of the Hoover Administration to put the fear of God into the Democratic leadership...
...approved the European trip of the Herter Committee; this helped to pass ERP on the basis of Congressmen's independent knowledge of the European crisis. He was also largely responsible for inclusion of aid-to-China in the ERP package. In domestic affairs, he ran the tax-reduction bill through the House; held up U.M.T.; pushed and prodded for a larger Air Force; had a hand in all Republican legislation such as the Taft-Hartley act. He has made it clear to Senators Vandenberg and Taft that they must stay on their own side of the Hill, that...
Though Sportscaster Bill Slater now ingratiatingly explains what is happening on the screen (apparently for the benefit of the blind), the film itself remains a brilliant solo on the optic nerve. Some memorable passages...
...reminded the little Caudillo that without Hitler and Mussolini there would have been no Fascist Spain. Franco placated the Führer by refueling Nazi submarines with U.S. oil, giving German spies a free hand, and turning over the Spanish press to Axis propagandists. (Hitler had kept an itemized bill for his aid to Franco during the Spanish Civil War; Franco made payments on it all through World War II with U.S. food and oil and Spanish strategic materials which, he told the Allies, Hitler would...
Five hits, plus an awesome display of bobbling by the Middlebury team, permitted the Varsity baseball team to score seven times in the eighth inning to win its first game in four starts by the score of 8 to 5. Until the eighth Bill Confrey, the small-sized Middlebury hurler, held the Crimson to three bits on the Soldiers Field diamond Saturday...