Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, it looked as if the Administration had made a mistake. Until then, Majority Leader Scott Lucas had had the assurance of considerable Republican support. In fact, he had hoped to have enough votes to apply cloture (limitation of debate), break the Southerners' filibuster, write a new rule widening cloture power,-* and, in the end, pass Harry Truman's civil rights program. Then Harry Truman put his foot...
...admiration for strong men. Top place (with 3,937 out of 8,500 votes) went to Germany's first Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, who once bragged that the great problems of history are solved by blood & iron. Next, with 773 votes, came Winston Churchill, who had helped to break up Bismarck's Reich with blood & sweat...
...gravediggers-Catholics almost to a man-promptly charged that the cardinal's methods were "high-handed, arbitrary, and suggestive of the tactics used by anti-union employers ten years ago." The union also claimed that Cardinal Spellman and the trustees of St. Patrick's had "sought to break the union" by appealing to the workers as individuals in two letters and a telegram. They passed a resolution condemning "the union-busting tactics of any employer, including the Catholic Church when it acts as an employer." To dispose of the Communist implication, they cut loose from the international...
...with knowledge and interest can break into the field of business finance, three executives agreed at last night's career conference in Dunster House dining hall...
...worst break in prices since the spring...