Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate's premier spoilsman, choleric old (75) Kenneth McKellar, was making another assault on TVA, which enrages him because its thousands of jobs are not open to patronage appointments. He had hung 16 legislative amendments on an appropriation bill (which is almost never vetoed), mainly in an effort to throw jobs open to politics. After a dingdong battle, he gave up all but one amendment, but that one was plenty. The Senate, flailing away, was trying to decide anew an ancient question: Can such amendments be germane to an appropriation bill...
This is the fourth in a series of articles describing the work that Harvard Faculty members are doing in connection with the war effort. Already discussed: Colonel Francis Trow Spaulding and the United States Armed Forces Institute, President James B. Conant and the National Defense Research Committee...
North Carolina has 25 votes at the G.O.P. convention. Whereas Wendell Willkie had worked hard for only six votes in New Hampshire, Tom Dewey now apparently had plucked off 25 votes without seeming effort. With a neat bit of stagecraft timing, Joe Hanley, Dewey's faithful Lieutenant Governor, turned up in North Carolina to keynote the state's Republican convention. Forthwith, delegates with whoop & holler voted unanimously to "draft" New York's cagey Governor...
Despite such tragic losses, the effort was not wholly in vain. The airborne troops who escaped their comrades' fire helped to speed up the Sicilian campaign...
...utterly blameless attempt to display the faces and figures of a number of models under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is also a vehicle for Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly and the average moviegoer has seen the same thing two or three times before. No particular effort was expended in the writing of the script, and the picture vibrates rapidly between the ancient and the inane...