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Vinson, who does more to push through the Administration's military bills than any other man, got his dander up. "You might pick up the paper tomorrow morning and find where the Army had taken over the Statler Hotel," he told the House. "Your responsibility as it stands today would be merely to foot the bill . . . It is the people's money that you are spending . . . This bill is where you can save millions of dollars." Vinson quoted from the 1944 report of the Truman Investigating Committee, which raised hob about the Army's hotel leases...
...still fresh in every Senator's mind. The Administration's objections had been that blanket restrictions would interfere with U.S. sources of strategic materials, hamper allied unity, produce such odd results as keeping West Germany from buying potatoes in East Germany. Now, the Senate had its dander...
Like most allergists, Dr. Feinberg delights in the detective work of tracking down the cat dander, hair oil, dye, tanning material, feather dust and metals which have been convicted of causing some of his patients' allergies. Although ACTH has proved a big help in cases of asthma and related allergies, Dr. Feinberg reports that ACTH itself has caused some allergic reactions...
Harry Truman's dander was up. The 81st Congress had constantly stepped on his executive toes. Now the new 82nd was trying to tell him what he should do. A number of Congressmen were demanding that he fire Dean Acheson; a number of others were trying to hold his feet to the fire for his foreign policy, an attempt to which he angrily assigned a purely political motive. It was in defiant reaction to those irritations that he had tossed off his truculent assertion that the President had the right to send U.S. troops anywhere in the world, whether...
...Venice for the International Film Festival, Rossellini shrugged off the missiles with the air of a matador dodging a flying pop bottle. He was stalking bigger game. Charging that RKO had ruined his Stromboli, the film that got Ed Johnson's dander up in the first place, Rossellini withdrew it from the Venice competition and pressed a whopping damage suit against the company. RKO, said Rossellini, had destroyed Stromboli by bad cutting and had damaged its box-office appeal by "improper" advertising (sample: "Raging Island . . . Raging Passions"). Cried Rossellini: "I feel like I'm living in the fable...