Word: branch
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...which violated House rules--of publicizing names of those Republicans who hadn't signed the discharge petition. After the bill had been emasculated by the Senate he urged liberals to accept what they could get. (Compare Senator Joseph Clark's description of the 1960 fight in Congress: The Sapless Branch: "In the end, the leadership on both sides of the aisle capitulated to the Southern Generalissimo, Richard B. Russell of Georgia...
...similar lack of clarity of analysis characterized Senator Joseph Clark's Congress: The Sapless Branch which pre-dated this by a year. Clark's history is no better than Bolling's; and he is even more prone to accept, unexamined, theories for a stronger two-party system, such as those of his close friend, James McGregor Burns...
Classic Understatement. In the debate, Donnelly argued that nationalization was hardly relevant in a modern industrial society. Wyatt acidly added that the White Paper would turn steel "into a branch of the civil service. It is written as though the last 13 years [since the Tories denationalized steel] had never happened. It has no new ideas, and instead of helping the industry, will actually hinder it." Besides, he added, "there is no urgency to nationalize steel at this moment" in the country. It was one of those classic British understatements. That morning's Gallup poll showed that only...
Anderson should have less trouble in the triple jump. Yale's Wright and Princeton's Mel Branch are almost a foot short of the Quaker star's 47-ft. efforts...
This week the giant F. W. Woolworth Co. (2,106 stores) follows the trend with one of the most ambitious projects yet. Buoyed by a two-week tryout in a New Jersey branch, where it sold dime-store buyers 450 art works priced from $17.50 to $2,000, Woolworth will open a permanent art gallery on the second floor of its Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan. The gallery will emphasize contemporary art, will open with an 800-work, $750,000 collection that includes etchings, engravings, lithographs and woodcuts by Braque, Chagall, Miró and Luigini. In their three-month search...