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...Gain. But the Senate was looking for no intramural brawl. By a vote of 48 to 36 it accepted the McCarthy substitute, voted down the T-E-W bill by voice vote. Next day, while the House hurried the Senate housing bill to the White House, the Senate rejected, 53 to 33, a Democratic amendment including all of the President's anti-inflation requests. Then, with hardly a change, it whipped through the House bill to check inflation by reinstituting consumer credit controls and tightening the cash reserve requirements of Federal Reserve banks (see BUSINESS...
...result, at the company's annual meeting last spring, was a free-for-all brawl for control. The opposing factions tried to shout and push each other down, and held a tug of war with company records. They finally had to call a cop (to restore a modicum, of order) and go to court before the quarrel was temporarily settled in favor of the adamant management. But the management had had a bad scare...
...hotels, and no racketing band music in the lobbies. It was possible to board an elevator in the Bellevue-Stratford without waiting. At 12:30 a.m. on a pre-convention morning, Illinois Delegate "Paddy" Bauler (who once made Chicago history by shooting a cop in the pants during a brawl outside his saloon) stared down the quiet sidewalks of Broad Street and said: 'We got more excitement in the 43rd ward at 11 o'clock in the morning when the guys is all in church." Delegates seemed to flinch at signs which read...
...syndicating the Star's stable of talent. But the main chance is to steal readers from two tabloids that are past masters of rough-&-tumble newsstand methods. If the Star ever seriously threatens either the Daily News or the Mirror, New York is in for a rousing street brawl...
They were lean, hard-boiled young sailors from the A.F.L. Seafarers International Union. The Seafarers, following the pattern of C.I.O.'s brawling National Maritime Union in helping striking white-collar workers, had decided to put some noise and muscle into the Financial Employes' walkout. When the cops moved in on them to clear the entrances, the seamen had their own roughhouse counter-move ready. They rushed the cops, blocked the exchange entrance with a carpet of bodies. The surprised policemen started swinging their clubs-and the first labor brawl in Wall Street's history...