Word: earned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lower lip, jammed his hands in his pockets and slouched off the House floor. Cleveland Bailey charged into the House well to register a technical protest. He was over ruled. Les Arends, leaving the chamber with sweat dripping from his forehead, sighed: "And they say we don't earn...
...conspirator. You would think it was something a man would prefer to forget, but Humphrey glories in it. His conduct is a rather extreme [example] of what has become a habit pattern for most of our liberal paladins. None get better, some get worse, and the best of them earn what credit they deserve by standing still. That is why Harry Cain deserves an award of some sort. Harry Cain has gotten better. As a Senator, Harry Cain was one of Joe McCarthy's best friends. When he was cut down by the voters of Washington in 1952, Cain...
...annual report last month deplored the decrease in students majoring in the humanities. Yet at Yale last year only 16 manufacturers out of 117 who interviewed graduating seniors were willing to consider humanistic concentrators for jobs. Many students are being forced into the sciences in order to earn a living...
...bill passed last July provided relief where it was most needed by encouraging students to earn all they can, without losing their status as "Dependent children." Parents must simply pay half their children's college and living expenses to claim dependency deductions on their tax bills. Thousands of students who formerly ended summer jobs in mid-August, so they would not exceed the $600 limit on dependent's earnings, now can work for the entire summer. The new tax law has encouraged industry instead of indolence, making possible increased student earnings, at little cost to the Treasury...
...House floor, California's Democratic Representative James Roosevelt rose to make his maiden speech. Subject: something should be done about U.S. citizens who are starving and/or earn less than $1,000 a year. His sole congressional listeners: California's Republican J. Arthur Younger and New Jersey's elephantine (320 Ibs.) Democrat T. James Tumulty. When Congressman Roosevelt finished his oration, puckish Jim Tumulty applauded thunderously, asked that the record show the speech was received by "a large and appreciative audience...