Word: cloakroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vote was hardly a clear-cut victory for fiscal responsibility. For one thing, with a canny display of practical politicking. Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield and his aides patrolled the Republican cloakroom right up to the count, displaying a list of post offices in members' states that might be rebuilt or modernized with $175 million of the money the new rate would bring...
...cloakroom during algebra...
After that, the book offers enough coats and hooks to fill a good-sized cloakroom. Meanwhile, the younger kids scrape and squabble, while the old folks lead lives of quiet exasperation: a mother dies:a father loses his job; a family moves to another town. No small-town girl herself, Author Winsor (who grew up in Berkeley, Calif.) has caught a few authentic echoes of small-town speech. She quotes Dostoevsky to the effect that "there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome" than "a memory of childhood." But then, Dostoevsky never knew Kathleen Winsor, who makes childhood seem...
...Brevard Russell and his determined Southerners, Senate Republican Leader William Fife Knowland and his coalition of Republicans and Democratic liberals. Last week, with the pressures carefully remeasured, the crosscurrents analyzed, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson calculated that it was time to come out of the wings and exercise his superb cloakroom skill in the name of moderation. Johnson's goal: enactment of a compromise civil rights bill that most of the South could swallow (including Texan Lyndon Johnson), that Dick Russell would not filibuster against, and that Bill Knowland and Northern Democrats could hold up as a symbol of civil...
...twist of Senate cloakroom politics, two far-apart issues-Negroes' civil rights in the South and federal power policies in the Northwest-got linked together on Capitol Hill last week, with surprising results...