Word: cooperates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bareheaded. Trouble broke into the open when members of the Ways & Means Committee appeared before the House traffic cop, the Rules Committee. Tennessee's Democratic Representative Jere Cooper, chairman of the Ways & Means Committee and longtime advocate of reciprocal trade, briefly explained the bill, emphasized its moderation, promised that "there will be no drastic tariff reducing." Cooper asked for the "usual and customary" closed rule, i.e., one that would bar amendments on the House floor but would permit a motion to send the bill back to committee for rewriting...
Opposition flared forthwith. Mississippi's Democratic Representative William Colmer, a Rules committeeman from Pascagoula (fisheries, textiles), leaned far back in his chair and drawled: "Isn't it true that a closed rule is really a gag?" Jere Cooper looked hurt, answered the attack with a defense of the trade bill itself. Said he: "The studies show that where a product is in bad shape, it is not so much the tariff rate that is causing it, but normal changes in tastes and customs. The felt-hat industry has complained. Well, it's not the tariff that...
...Senate approved the nomination of Kentucky's able ex-Senator John Sherman Cooper to be Ambassador to India and Nepal...
...this amiable villainy centers around a red coach containing both three million dollars in gold and Denise Darcel. The gold, which the Mexican Emperor Maximillian is sending to Paris, has various attractions. It could help the patriotic Mexican rebels overthrow foreign dictatorship, it could help Cooper rebuild his southern plantation which was ruined in the Civil War, it could help Miss Darcel deck herself out in greater finery, and it could help Lancaster to be a bigger and better stinker. With so many unscrupulous scoundrels around, there is some difficulty finding anyone who really deserves the money...
...Gary Cooper withholds comment on Hanna's fate, and pouts enigmatically to the climax, when he and his partner face each other across the dusty expanse of a SuperScope screen, hands clawing expectantly over their holsters...