Word: cuts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deal on the Floor. Charging in from opposite directions, Ohio's Taft wanted to cut out the $12.5 million "outhouse fund" for submarginal farms, and North Dakota's maverick Republican William Langer wanted to double it. Langer threatened to filibuster all night. As he talked, Democratic leaders huddled near him, occasionally whispering to him. In the end, he sat down assured that he would have his way. Senator Taft snapped angrily: "We all saw the deal made here on the Senate floor. There is no question that the committee bought off the filibuster by agreeing to increase...
...China. Nearly a million Communist troops along a 400-mile front poured across the broad Yangtze, Nationalist China's last great defensive barrier, and swept government positions aside like puny earthworks in a raging tide. The Communists moved in with impressive speed. In four days they took Nanking, cut off Shanghai, and captured half a dozen strategic Nationalist cities. They were driving hard for the rest of free China not yet engulfed in the Red flood...
...great college be resolute. Let them at least read examinations carefully, and let them carefully try to figure out what grade the student deserves. Conscientiousness will never eliminate all injustices; it might not even insure against such grotesqueries as the recent C--plus case. But it will at least cut down injustices. And it will cut down the percentage of those who successfully slide through Harvard on the assumption that the pen is mightier than the book...
Harvard's job is cut out for it; it must hit like it has in its last two games. As for pitching, chances are nobody will have to worry about Ira Godin...
...which broke out between the students and a group of seven youths, ran from the corner of Boylston and Mt. Auburn streets to the triangle in front of Kirkland House. In the fracas, Thomas L. O'Donoghue '51 picked up a black eye and Harold W. Hollingshead '50 was cut above the eye and received a possible broken nose...