Word: bracketeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...period. He had put the House of Commons in a gay mood by his deft handling of tricky questions. As the speaker left the chair, the sergeant at arms, dressed in court black, advanced solemnly up the aisle, removed the mace from the table, and set it in the bracket underneath. This put the House "in committee of the Whole House," ready to consider any bill concerned with money...
...each bracket meet in a runoff...
Harvard's tennis team dominated the field yesterday in the New England Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament at Providence. Jack Stewart and Johnny Palfrey have dropped by the wayside, but Captain Dave Burt and ex-Captain Langdon Gilkey are slated to oppose each other in the top bracket of the singles semi-finals today. In the doubles tournament Harvard has been even more successful, with both the Burt-Gilkey and Palfrey-Stewart combinations winning their way into the semi-finals...
John Nance Garner was the first top-bracket Democrat to understand that Franklin Roosevelt was not going to anoint and bless any Presidential candidate until the last dragged-out moment before the 1940 convention. Looking over the field, Mr. Garner concluded his chances of anointment were pretty dim; out went his braves to do something about it. By last week they could confidently report back to the Vice President that his complete retirement from public life on Jan. 20, 1941 was a dead cinch, but that with him he might well take Mr. Roosevelt...
...document's general forthrightness came cleanest in its politically audacious declaration for increased taxes on the middle brackets, if the national income fails to rise swiftly enough. Also dangerous political doctrine was a demand for reductions in high-bracket surtax rates...