Word: earmarks
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Ohio's thoughtful John M. Vorys was addressing the whole U.S. House of Representatives, but he looked straight at his Republican colleagues. Up for debate was a bill to earmark $1,350,000,000 as the U.S. share (i% of estimated 1943 national income) for aid to war victims through the United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration. When it came right down to appropriating U.S. dollars, was Congress really ready to cooperate with 43 other nations in a nonmilitary project? It was a tempting chance to play GOPolitics with an Administration bill. But ex-isolationists who stepped forward hopefully...
...Staff General George C. Marshall went an order calling attention to a IOOI regulation that forbids sale of hard liquor on military reservations, an all-but-forgotten rule. Prevailing practice in most officers' clubs and messes* is for stewards to purchase liquor in the name of officer-members, earmark bottles for an officer's personal use. Some clubs had grown lax in recent years, allowed unrestricted bar sales...
Last week the University of Chicago's shrewd President Robert Maynard Hutchins launched a scheme to earmark war savings for a future college education. "Buy a future education," said the university, "and help win the war with the same dollars...
...argument: Let Army & Navy continue to earmark college undergraduates (some 160,000 a year) for deferment under the present half-dozen college training plans. But let the armed services recognize that these plans are only half measures. As yet, the services take no account of the 400,000 high-school graduates each year who don't go on to college, in most cases because they can't afford...
...Music. Even tone-deaf people can identify Latin American dance music. Its earmark is a varied assortment of strange drums, dried vegetables, bits of wood, which can produce sound combinations as fascinating as static in a transatlantic broadcast, rhythms more intriguing than the clickety-clack of a 60-mile-an-hour express. Samba music is no exception. It has its own Brazilian instruments; some tick off a steady one-two-one-two, others counter with a galloping rhythm...