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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republicans and conservative Democrats that could push the Herlong substitute through, Minority Leader Charles Halleck lashed the whip as never before. "This is the big test," Halleck told a Republican caucus on the day of vote on the Herlong substitute. "This [Rains bill] is a budget-busting bill if ever there was one-by hundreds of millions of dollars...
...given date. We can call a primary strike all across the nation that will straighten out the employers once and for all." Hoffa's outrageous threat brought outraged reactions in the press and on Capitol Hill. Taken aback for once, Hoffa loudly denied that he had ever made such a statement. But no one was so stupid as to believe his denial. He had, in fact, made the statement into a microphone wired to a tape recorder, and there it all was, in Hoffa's voice...
With all the assurance of a man operating a crooked roulette wheel, Nikita Khrushchev last week in Moscow proclaimed his confidence that the Geneva conference "will be successful." Folksy as ever, Nikita went on to explain: "We have a Russian saying that goes something like this: to achieve something difficult it is necessary to eat a pood* of salt. The foreign ministers may have to eat a great deal of salt. But even if they do not succeed in eating or digesting it on the first try, they should make new efforts...
Couve de Murville - When I was listening to our colleague with my invariable interest, but this time with occasional astonishment at some of his particularly categorical judgments, I wondered why we Westerners had ever taken the trouble to draft this plan which we hoped in good faith might at least be discussed . . . [Mr. Gromyko's] reply moves me, indeed, to remark, adapting a French saying, that in discussion with the Soviet delegation, we pay for our past concessions...
...year-old independent weekly newsmagazine Philippines Free Press declared last week that "there is more grafting and thieving in our government today than there ever was in previous administrations, from that of Manuel Quezon to Ramon Magsaysay. Compared to the callous and venal officials we have nowadays, those that infested the [1948-53 Quirino administration] were clumsy amateurs...