Word: fellowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perhaps the most far-reaching liberalization of House rules since the late George Norris and a band of fellow insurgents clipped the autocratic power of old Speaker Joe Cannon, 39 years ago. "Uncle Joe" Cannon had wielded his power through the Speaker's right to appoint all committees. Norris changed all that, but he hadn't succeeded in cleaning out all the old glory holes where a minority could defeat the will of a majority. Last week's showdown went even further toward outting authority where it belonged-in the majority of the House...
...better or for worse, Bob Taft would continue to run G.O.P. domestic policy. A Republican caucus voted him back into the chairmanship. Lodge got the votes of only 14 fellow Republicans...
...Junior Fellow Richard N. Frye visited a lonely mountain in Persia this summer and came back with 800 words of ancient Pahlevi--one of the largest inscriptions ever found in the Near East...
...Rockefeller Center, the subway system, Lord & Taylor (remember the dear dead days when everybody was singing songs about Macy's?), and, of course, Fifth Avenue. "From Dubuque to Westminster Abbey they want the Fifth Avenue Look," they chant. And there's the inevitable song about how lonely a fellow can be in this big town with all the people 'round. This one is followed by a ballet number on the same theme which employs every cliche of dance and plot. It is very well danced by Viola Essen, but Markova couldn't make choreography interesting...
...Break. Three weeks after U.S.A. was hailed by the fellow-traveling League of American Writers in 1937, Dos Passes lost his appeal for Communists when he attacked "the intricate and bloody machinery of Kremlin policy." He began a new series of novels that were to be as full of the liberal's soul-searching doubts as U.S.A. had been of the radical's passionate certainties...