Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trumbull's mortal remains lie only 30 feet from where I now sit. His ghost will haunt us both unless credit is given where it is due. Tell the world the visual record of The Battle of Princeton by General Washington's aide-de-camp is at Yale...
...which reduced the old hodgepodge of 81 Congressional committees to 15 in the Senate, 19 in the House. The 80th Congress, however, was not bound to go through with this streamlining. Many would prefer the old committee system, because there were more chairmanships to go around. A fight was due over that...
...with a new sense of responsibility Joe looked over the men who would run the committees in his House. Were the Republicans in line for the jobs the best the party had? There was, for instance, John Taber of New York, due to head up Appropriations. Bull-tongued John Taber, blaring away in a speech on wage-hour amendments in 1940, had restored the hearing in the deaf ear of the late Congressman Leonard W. Schuetz of Illinois. Schuetz had been deaf since birth. The effect, Schuetz said at the time, made him dizzy. "I had spent thousands of dollars...
There was Harold Knutson of Minnesota, due to be chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, which handles all tax and tariff legislation. Before Pearl Harbor, Knutson opposed nearly every defense measure, once proclaimed: "Hitler is displaying a forbearance that might be emulated by statesmen of other countries...
...arterial transfusions on 20 human patients, with "very encouraging" results. Some of his patients survived, he says, when "intravenous transfusion would not have done a particle of good." Advantages of arterial transfusion. ¶ It brings the body out of shock quickly. In prolonged shock, said Dr. Page, death is due in large part to failure of the kidneys to secrete urine...