Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sellout." Reaction to the President's message was predictable. "A sellout to organized labor," cried U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Robert Gerholz. Werner P. Gullander, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, was unhappy because 14(b), he said, "permits the states to protect employees from being forced into labor unions against their will." New Jersey's former Republican Representative Fred A. Hartley, co-author of Taft-Hartley, dismissed the President's proposal as "a ridiculous move." But labor was elated. Calling Johnson's statement "clear and unequivocal," the A.F.L.C.I.O.'s Meany said: "The question...
Forewarned, forearmed. Williams appeared in the Senate chamber and challenged the Rules Committee Democrats to repudiate the source of the leak or to "repeat in my presence and in the presence of the full Senate any charges or criticisms that they care to make." Said he: "As one who has tried, notwithstanding numerous rebuffs and insults, to cooperate with this committee and to keep this investigation on the proper track, I do not intend that these charges by innuendo go unchallenged...
Finally, an answer. Chairman Jordan had arrived in the chamber, sat with hands folded in his lap while Williams spoke, then delivered a lame reply: "It would be highly out of order for me to engage in a discussion of the working draft until the committee has met and acted...
...problem of the Sovietization of Cuba, this time in infinitely more dangerous circumstances. Having learned a lesson about opinion, Kennedy did not hesitate to go to the brink to get the Russian missiles out of Cuba; but he gave Khrushchev a face-saving exit through the U.N. decompression chamber. The onlooking world, though nervous, on the whole approved the U.S. action. Kennedy passed up the opportunity of invading Cuba and destroying the Castro regime-not primarily because of world opinion but because of his calculation of the risks...
...Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter, rendered in a heavy English Midlands accent, was the No. 1 bestseller last week. Right behind it was Count Me In by Gary Lewis and the Playboys. Gary is Comedian Jerry Lewis' son. Unfortunately, he favors an overdose of echo-chamber effect, which makes him sound as if he had his head inside a fishbowl...