Word: caine
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...PROBABLE OFFENSIVE LINEUPS HARVARD ARMY Hyde (200) lc Feldberg (185) Toepke (106) lt Zelgler (205) Kanter (187) lg Elmbald (206) O'llrien (210) c Haas (106) Rocenau (196) rg Robertn (190) Nichela (218) ty Ackersen (210) Revrehy (197) re Weaver (210) Loeenstein (152) qb Blaik(185) Inenberg (179) lh Cain(170) Warden (184) rh Martin (170) West (203) fb Stephenson (185) PROBABLE DEFENCIVE LINEUPS Hyde (200) fe Lohlcin (200) Heldtmann (213) lt Shira (215> Falion (195) lg Malavasl (190) O'Bricn (201) c Stout (180) Roscnau (198) rg Cox (194) Connelly (200) rt Kimmel (215) Rate (193) re Rowekamp...
Pickles & Coffee. When the Senate convened on Friday, Cain was ready. Dressed in a tan gabardine suit, fitted out with a rubber urinal strapped to his left leg under his trousers, he took his stand at the front-row desk of Republican Floor Leader Kenneth Wherry. "My fight is for fair play and freedom," orated Cain. The Senate fidgeted as Cain rasped on, reading telegrams from sympathizers, commenting on golf scores, on tents, on veterans. He argued that any community that wanted control could impose it (as New York State had with Tom Dewey's backstop legislation), that "small...
Discreetly, Republicans and Southern Democrats gave him breathers by posing long questions. Three times Wherry wangled short recesses on the pretext that he could get an agreement from Cain. Each time, Cain made a beeline for the washroom, returning to his desk relieved and refreshed. But he flatly refused to compromise. By suppertime, each side had reduced itself to a corporal's guard, left behind in case of a break. The rest slipped off to dinner parties or catnapped on cots in the cloakrooms. Some fortified their spirits with quick nips of bourbon...
Until Christmas? Just after midnight, Cain abruptly ended his speech and demanded a quorum call. His filibuster had lasted 12 hours and 8 minutes.* The sergeant-at-arms began routing out snoozing Senators and, when he could not find enough, was ordered to arrest a few-a temper-raising procedure which had not been invoked since 1942. But arrests proved unnecessary as, one by one, Senators straggled in, grinning sheepishly as their waiting colleagues applauded each latecomer. For an hour the Senators wrangled. Lucas wanted an agreement to vote on the bill itself; Wherry demanded a vote on a motion...
This week Cain announced spryly that he was ready to resume his filibuster at a moment's notice, but the Senate resoundingly (44-25) defeated Wherry's motion to recommit the bill. Harry Cain gave...