Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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International News Service Reporter Ruth Montgomery knew Edgar was in town, and she had heard he had some critical opinions of brother Dwight's Administration. When she first called for an interview, Edgar was about to go out to Griffith Stadium and asked if she would call back at111 o'clock next morning. But at 9 a.m. Newshen Montgomery was awakened by her telephone: a cheery Edgar was on the line, wanting to know if she could hustle right over to the Statler. Edgar had plenty on his mind-so much that after 50 minutes of breathless note...
...keep from embarrassing politicians who got campaign contributions from the Teamsters. "If I did go ahead and talk, it might blow the lid right off the Senate." Next day South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl Mundt, a member of the special investigating committee, threatened to call Beck in again to "put up or shut up" about that lid. Beck hastily protested that he had been "misquoted...
...have smelled rotten eggs, sir, and that is what a stink bomb smells like," she burbled. "Mr. Hubshman [Robert Hubshman, a Teamster slugger] and Mr. Brady [Philip Brady, business agent for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Scranton] had discussed this with me, and I can't call them 'mister'-I am so used to calling them Bob and Billy and so on. Bob, he said to me, 'Wait until they try soap and water to clean that up.' Because, he said, 'Only ammonia will take it out and they will never think...
...total is highly cheering to advocates of income-tax limitation, because the Constitution says, in Article V, that Congress "shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments" upon request of two-thirds, or 32, of the state legislatures. Nonetheless, for the foreseeable future, the prospects for a tax-ceiling amendment are nil (even aside from the fact that at least seven of the 33 legislatures later canceled their memorials). Most members of Congress are well aware that, while it might make economic sense, drastic income-tax limitation would 1) annoy a lot of voters as a gift to the more highly...
...Atom and Hydrogen Bombs noisily formulated plans to send a "peace fleet" into the 750,000 square miles of ocean which Britain has declared off limits to shipping between March i .and Aug. i. Driven by mounting public hysteria, the Japanese government five times formally requested the British to call off the test...