Word: coughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desk was the tax bill, finally sweated out by Congressman Robert ("Muley") Doughton and his Ways & Means Committee (see p. 14). Defense was costing a lot of money, a lot of taxpayers were going to have to cough up for it. The bill would surely start a row on Capitol Hill...
...smoked for a while, but gave it up three years ago-it made him cough; drinks beer (not much) and wines. He is a bouncing, lusty, easy-smiling man, lighting into his work each morning with something of the same sort of heavy, rolling eagerness that his big Hampshire porkers show in running for the day's first trough. He has a rich country sense of humor, loves long, involved, chronicle jokes, and has the heartiest laugh in the Cabinet-a booming roar that makes other people chuckle all the way out the White House lobby...
When a labor union gets sued, that's news. When a labor union pays damages, that's big news. It was big news last week when Branch I of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers agreed to cough up $110,000 for damage its members had done four years ago during a sit-down strike at the Apex Hosiery Co. plant in Philadelphia. The company had filed and won a suit for triple damages against the union, had been reversed by the Supreme Court. Last year a new suit was instituted to collect $1,171,957 from...
Otto Abetz, Hitler's Ambassador to Paris, got whooping cough...
Making these improvements should certainly attract 175 more Yardlings, in all enough to more than pay the added $700 expenses. What you get is a real Freshman Jubilee, not a second rate dance for the one-quarter of the class which can afford to cough up $5.50 for a mediocre evening...