Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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House High Jinks. Emerging from cob-nosed Clarence Cannon's Appropriations Committee, the resolution touched off a long, loud partisan debate with many a tongue in cheek and many a wink. It is only "common courtesy," said Mississippi's Jamie Whitten, to invite the Administration to indicate where to cut its own budget. Complained Tennessee Democrat Ross Bass: "We are faced with this unusual situation because it is the first time in the history of our nation that a President has submitted a budget for the opera tion of the Government; yet neither he nor his Secretary...
...started into an elevator. Then the smile vanished-and squat (5 ft. 5 in., 170 lbs.) James Riddle Hoffa, 44, one of the most powerful leaders of U.S. labor, stood frozen-faced while agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation closed in on him, frisked him like a common footpad, and took from him the onionskin document. The paper had come from the files of the U.S. Senate committee investigating labor racketeering (see below), and Jimmy Hoffa had paid dearly for it. It might, in fact, have cost him his spectacular career...
...serious political crisis that shook the government has been overcome. Common sense, tolerance, zeal of liberty, respect for the opposition, decision and firmness permitted the government to restore a fully democratic regime...
Father Davis' prescription: "Protestants and Catholics should get together to talk over-not merely their differences -but also the vast areas of common concern which they have. I think that Catholics should take the initiative...
English which Giovanna read back in Italian. Then two other professors read Italian treatises on the Common Market. These Giovanna translated into English and French...