Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barkley was a mite stiff in the joints, but his eagerness to kiss a pretty girl was as well known as his homespun quip. President Harry Truman, signing a bill authorizing a special Barkley medal for his long and distinguished record in Congress, jokingly displayed a LIFE spread of Barkley cavorting with a Washington hostess, as evidence of his "service." Mr. Truman might have added that since Barkley took office in January, he has made more speeches (62 in 21 states), crowned more queens, and bussed more babies than any Vice President of record...
Harry Truman sat down at his desk with seven pens clutched in his left fist and, using them one after the other, painstakingly finished his signature on the National Security bill. After he had handed out the pens as souvenirs to the congressional leaders and service brass gathered about him, the President hailed the new law as "a major step toward more responsible and efficient administration of the military affairs of the nation...
Sheepherders, Yes. Last week the first cracks in the McKellar-McCarran empire began to appear. With considerable courage, Majority Leader Scott Lucas had led the successful bipartisan drive to pass an EGA bill without the crippling amendments written into it by McKellar's Appropriations Committee. Example: McCarran's proposal to give $50 million to Franco's Spain. Victorious in that fight, Lucas then turned on Pat McCarran...
...accompanying statement of her own, which the Cardinal's office in Manhattan also released, she said she found it reassuring to be told that the Cardinal was asking only for "auxiliary services," a position he had not made clear in his earlier, broadside attacks on the Barden Bill. "I again wish to reiterate," she concluded, "that I have no anti-Roman Catholic bias. I am firm in my belief that there shall be no pressure brought to bear by any church against the proper operations of the government and that there shall be recognition of the fact that...
Last week Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson signed a bill permitting night thoroughbred races in his state. Owners of thoroughbred stables threw up their hands in horror, and none of the Chicago tracks made any immediate move to take advantage of the bill. Even the small track owners, strongest supporters of the legislation, weren't turning on the lights just yet. Explained Ray Bennigsen of Illinois' Hawthorne and Sportsman's Park: "The bill, I believe, was put through as a surety measure in view of the decline in betting on the thoroughbreds at all Chicago tracks this...