Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end Majority Leader Scott Lucas warned Senators that the Administration was going to keep them at their homework "even if we have to stay in Washington until Thanksgiving time...
...seemed to enjoy doing it. "We Democrats," Hathorn quoted Vaughan as saying, "have to stick together." When this did not win over Hathorn, Vaughan went further, confidentially confessed an amusing little indiscretion of his own. He had told Allied's president that molasses rationing was soon to end. The president, one Harold M. Ross, forthwith bought 500,000 gallons. But the general had been wrong: rationing didn't end at all and Ross was badly stuck. This, Vaughan said significantly, "could prove very embarrassing to me here at the White House...
...makes known no more of his plans for consistories and red hats than did Julius III. But this week, as the 73-year-old Pope began a three-week rest period, there were rumors aplenty that a new batch of cardinals would be created before year's end. Reasons: 1) papal tradition designates December (during Advent) as the most appropriate time for creating new cardinals; 2) the Pope will probably be calling a consistory in December anyway, in connection with the ceremonies inaugurating the Holy Year 1950; 3) there are now 15 vacancies in the College of Cardinals...
Were U.S. railroads pricing themselves out of business? The Interstate Commerce Commission thought so. Since war's end, the railroads have asked for, and received, seven freight-rate increases, but freight revenues have been slipping anyway. Last week ICC reluctantly handed out an eighth increase (an average of 3.7%), boosting freight rates-and shippers' bills-an estimated $293 million annually. The commission also handed down a warning: the railroads' higher rates are diverting more & more business to trucks, a trend that "is too impressive and formidable to be ignored...
Meanwhile, a bill came up calling for the creation of a new county carved from Sangamon and Morgan Counties. This posed a dilemma for Lincoln: because of pressure from home, he would have to vote for the new county, but the new county would mean the end of Sangamon's staunch Long Nine-possibly the end of Springfield as a capital. His solution: a referendum that tossed the county-division bill back to the voters while the Long Nine logrolled the Springfield bill to a quick decision...