Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cash & Carry. To postpone the Capehart vote, Johnson squeezed in two amendments dear to the Connecticut constituents of Republican Prescott Bush. Result: not only more time, but Bush's vote in the showdown. By accepting Republican Ralph Flanders' proposal to link the rate of housing starts to fluctuations in general business activity, Johnson won Flanders' vote. Then he cashed in lOUs with two other G.O.P. Senators, getting them to offset two of Johnson's absent Democrats by not voting themselves...
...bill as ranking Republican on the Public Works Committee, proved a perfect target for Democratic hecklers. When asked if U.S. taxpayers would not have to meet the high interest charges against the highway bonds, Martin replied: "It is unnecessary to worry about that . . ." Connecticut's Republican Senator Prescott Bush, standing almost alone in full support of the Administration, was swarmed over by Democrats while other Republicans watched complacently...
Three of the committee's seven Republicans (New York's Ives, Connecticut's Bush and Maine's Payne) went along with the Democrats' recommendations but appended a note of disagreement on the committee's view of the stock-market rise. The report, said they, gave "insufficient emphasis" for the rise to the confidence that the public has in the Eisenhower Administration...
...members will replace J. N. Douglas Bush, professor of English, and John P. Elder, associate professor of Greek and Latin, whose five-year terms have expired, and Carl Kaysen, assistant professor of Economics, who will be on leave of absence next year...
...concrete highway that bisects the capital city of Leopoldville. In far-off mission churches, encircled by the rain forest that stretches through Belgian territory from the Atlantic to the Mountains of the Moon, choirs of Bantu children rehearsed the Te Deum. African regiments drilled, jazz bands blared in the bush, and on the great brown river that drains the middle of the continent Negro captains tooted the raucous steam whistles on their swiftly gliding paddle boats...