Word: courting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time Bradley had finished, Senate opposition to the pact was dwindling fast. All week long the committeemen were urged to speed its ratification by a whole parade of witnesses: former Under Secretaries of State Will Clayton and Robert Lovett, the Republicans' John Foster Dulles, former Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts, Senator Robert Taft's brother, Charles P. Taft, former head of the Federal Council of Churches...
...hung ballroom of Anderson House, the President of the United States sat beaming before a heap of ten-cent-store toys and a big pink and gold cake topped by three candles. He puffed once and blew them out. The 70-odd guests-the Cabinet, some of the Supreme Court, the White House guard and their wives-applauded happily. House Speaker Sam Rayburn proposed a toast (in domestic champagne) to the future...
...four years Attorney General Tom Clark had given the party on Harry Truman's birthday. This was the biggest one of all. Court Jester George Allen, deep in the Truman doghouse last summer for his pro-Eisenhower antics, was out again and sniffing the friendly presidential air for the first time in months. He sat pleased and smiling at Harry Truman's own table. New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer, another doghouse tenant in pre-convention days, also had slipped back into the family. Ailing Les Biffle, Senate Secretary and a pal of many birthdays...
...front window of a 1940 Buick belonging to Ralph M. Hymans '49, was broken Wednesday by garage attendants who proceeded to tow the vehicle from its parking place on Holyoke place according to police instructions. Hymans last night announced that he will sue for damages in small claims court...
...retiring professor is an expert on relations between the federal government and the states. His last book on the subject discussed the United States Supreme Court's jurisdiction over state police power...