Word: celler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...businessmen who took paid leave from their jobs to work for the Government in World Wars I and II were called dollar-a-year men. This time they are called WOCs-for "without compensation." When Emanuel Celler's House subcommittee announced recently that it was going to check up on Washington's WOCs, it got a mysterious tip. The Congressmen, said the tipster, should look into some of the steel allocations made by the National Production Authority...
...Emanuel Celler, who has served Brooklyn in Congress for the past 14 terms, penned a letter to the New York Times, listing the perfect Congressman's qualities: "The friendliness of a child, the enthusiasm of a teenager, the assurance of a college boy, the tirelessness of a bill collector, the patience of a sacrificing wife, the diplomacy of a wayward husband, the curiosity of a cat, and the good humor of an idiot...
Shepard will probably use the same type of offense he worked against Providence College in a scrimmage this week. Lionette will operate an the pivot man from the celler's usual position. Smith will follow the progress of the ball from the outside, moving in for rebounds. The two will probably switch after a while...
...Rathskeller features fine acoustics in a genuine upholstered celler--painted walls, exposed pipes and girders, and kitchen chairs. If places like this keep open, Boston will soon have a wider selection of quality jazz than either New York or Chicago...
Representative Celler of New York is the first member of Congress to call publicly for new legislation to replace the so-called publicly for new legislation to replace the so-called "Internal Security Act of 1950," passed overwhelmingly by Congress last week over the veto of the President. Celler has asked the Justice Department to draw up a communist-control bill of its own which could be presented to the legislators when they reconvene in late November...