Word: eights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile a committee of the House, where eight consecutive appropriation bills had been cut symbolically but not substantially below Budget figures, voted to undo all that economy with a farm bill to provide parity payments $244,098,376 above Budget figures. A $400,000,000 log-rolling bee between farm Congressmen and WPAdvocates hove into view. And the World War Veterans' Legislation Committee prepared to add heavily to the Government's overhead, to ask regular pensions of $40 a month for 65-year-old World Warriors-a cost of $31,000,000 a year to start with...
...influence in Congress are not measured by his one House chairmanship, that of the obscure Accounts Committee (which looks after what the House spends on itself). No one has attempted to oppose Warren in a Democratic primary since he won his seat in 1924. In only four of his eight elections have Republicans bothered to nominate a candidate against him. Patronage is therefore unimportant to him. He has not pressed for places on important committees. He turned down the $15,000, 14-year job of Comptroller General. In 1936 he declined to contest for Josiah Bailey's Senate seat...
When Racketbuster Tom Dewey last week wound up his biggest case, the most interesting item for New Yorkers was not the four-to-eight-year sentence imposed on Tammany Boss Jimmy Hines for selling protection at $30,000 a year to the city's "numbers" racket.† More significant was a probation report published the same day. In detailing the life & works of Convict Jimmy Hines, 62, with data gathered from Hines's family, friends, neighbors, District Attorney's office and Hines himself, the report gave ordinary citizens who often damn but seldom understand political bosses...
Harvard's Eight Old Men faced a forbidding task when they embarked on their investigation of appointment and tenure in May of 1937. Not only because of the tremendous size of the undertaking. But also because they were required to hand down a verdict on the hopes and fears of men with whom they no longer had anything in common. They, the judges, were famed professors, secure in position and reputation, and peculiarly exposed to conservatism. The young instructors before the bar were strugglers in a morass of uncertainty and ignorance about the future...
...candidates for the Freshman track managerial competition have reported, according to Manager Roger S. Hooper '39. Last year there were eight at this time. The winner of the competitions gets a major letter. Candidates should report to Templeton Smith '40 before or immediately after vacation...