Word: branches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whether the key Democrats in this key area will desert in numbers large enough to allow a clean oppositionist sweep. For nothing less will give the Republicans control of the House and Senate and their first clear electoral victory since 1928. Nothing less than this sweep will pit one branch of the government against the other in a standoff...
...state that "a G.O.P. majority in either house of the 80th Congress will mean two years of confusion and stalemate between the President and his legislature." You should remember that most of the executive branch has been appointed by one man with the advice of personally chosen advisors. The Congress, for better or worse, is chosen by thirty to forty-five million individuals. It represents, those people. Never forget that a dominated, controlled or purged legislative body has been the rubber stamp of personal or palace guard government in Germany, Italy, Japan, and Russia...
...would call a meeting of the G.O.P. Steering Committee immediately. He would strip the Executive branch "of its emergency and wartime powers . . . take the meddling hands of political despots out of the kitchens of America, out of the farmhouses, out of the grocery stores," rescind some of "those 76,541 directives, grants, orders, permissions and prohibitions issued by the Executive Department," look into "the waste and graft," lower the taxes, and scrutinize foreign affairs for "secret executive agreements." Said Joe Martin: "We Republicans will be ready...
...become a very good picture--that is, if Hollywood hadn't added the proverbial measure of corn. The result is a maudlin bit of bathos that pulls every trick in the book to get its sentimental effects and the tearful silver of every dowager in the nation from Long Branch, N. J., to Grass Valley, Cal. Mitchum, who turned in a fine performance as the infantry captain in "The Story of G.I. Joe," handles his role capably, as does William Gargan, who is cast as a Marine Rehabilitation NCO. The picture also deals surprisingly well with the problem...
...earnest conversation. In the 30's the school had a reputation for pacifism and radicalism; now its scholarship and its first-rate basketball teams are its chief glories. The main campus, on St. Nicholas Heights in upper Manhattan, has six be-gargoyled Gothic buildings; but its downtown branch at 23rd Street and Lexington Avenue looks like any big Manhattan office building. Students who don't foregather at the nearby Automat are apt to be found across the street at the George Washington Hotel, which before the war always kept a ten-pound cheese handy for them...