Word: dan
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Some members of the tribe of Dan (the seafarers of Israel) supposedly reached Ireland, where a certain Princess Tephi married one of their chieftains and founded the present royal family of Britain-making Queen Elizabeth II a lineal descendant of David. This Irish Israelite line is also thought to have preserved the stone Jacob used as a pillow. The stone, so goes the legend, was saved from the Jerusalem temple when it was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, and taken to Ireland, thence to Scotland. Now it is the Stone...
...will be no pushover. Among the ten congressional members (total membership: 17) are some of the most powerful anti-free traders in Congress, e.g., Republican Congressmen Dan Reed and Richard Simpson, G.O.P. Senators Bourke Hickenlooper and Eugene Millikin, men who still think the Ruhr is just as far from Chicago as Timbuktu...
...half-dozen most powerful labor bosses in the nation, and he is still on the climb. Beck's enemies insist that his goal is nothing less than a single, giant labor federation, with himself as its boss. Since he succeeded Dan Tobin as Teamster president last year, Beck has kept on the offensive, recruiting and raiding uninhibitedly. Last week he predicted a teamsters' membership of "in excess of 3,000,000" by 1960. Long the No. i union boss on the West Coast, he is building a $3,500,000 headquarters in Washington, an indication that he expects...
...movement. Here & there around the country were others, not so well known beyond their state lines, who were heroes to the home folks, and adept at political infighting. Maryland's Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, the man who nominated Eisenhower at Chicago, was a seaboard internationalist; Colorado's popular Dan Thornton was a western conservative. Together they reppresented the limits of the Eisenhower faith, but both were enthusiastic Ikemen and both could be counted on to spread the word...
...whole, this worked. From the first session of the 83rd, Ike got nearly everything he asked for. His greatest tactical victory was extension of the excess-profits tax, despite the opposition of Ways & Means Chairman Dan Reed. Ike's worst defeat was rejection of his eleventh-hour request for an increase in the U.S. debt limit. Significantly, the tactics of the debt-limit fight (see below) did not allow Ike to apply this one-by-one technique...