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Next day, at 2:30 p.m., balding House Clerk Irving Swanson began reading the message. The President was not only vetoing a bill; he was confidently, almost scornfully, lashing Congress. Some passages sounded almost like the old days of the fighting New Deal. Swanson's mellifluous voice accented the tough phrases (reputedly written by Fred Vinson Prentiss Brown and the Budget Bureau): "A bill to hamstring the Commodity Credit Corp. . . . would serve only to set the soldier, the worker and the unorganized consumer at war with the farmer . . . these unorganized millions must not become the forgotten men and women...
...point Congressmen laughed-at the President's crack that discussing all the difficulties in the bill would make his message as confused as the bill itself. At 4:22 p.m. Tally Clerk Hans Jorgensen completed the count: 228 to override the veto (every Republican vote except four), 154 to sustain...
...Sergeant Albert Joseph Erickson of Chicago, on duty with a South Pacific mobile reconnaissance squadron. His third test paper on the duties of a railroad rate clerk was held up: "A little of the real McCoy popping over here...
...with the greatest of precision what we are. . . . Prepare an order expunging from regimental conversation such uncouth expressions as "Germans leaked through," "We are surrounded," "heroic Sevastopol," "drunken enemy" and other such nonsense and forbidding them from being spoken even in a state of intoxication. Do you understand, heroic clerk...
...came dispatch orders for his chief Pay Clerk with the four hash marks to be detached immediately... But after all, his specimens were still there. Net two cans came up two points abaft the beam, both of which wanted two certified money lists taken care of ... While he was delving into his specimens ... Along came a detachment of marines who hadn't been paid for six months ... He tole them to get in line ... Things certainly were picking up ... Next he was notified there were three dead bodies below with their transfer pay accounts. Next came three wives who claimed...