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Joint Chuckle. Reaction to Khrushchev's naked renege ranged from sneers to near tears. "On again, off again, Finnigin," shrugged Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. KHRUSHCHEV MAKES FOOL OF HIMSELF, headlined London's tabloid Daily Mirror. "Responsibility for evading [a summit] meeting with the Security Council rests squarely with the Soviet Union," lamented the Times of India...
After a Grandmother: Finnigin. Over on the House side, Republican Joe Martin was getting ready to hand the Speaker's gavel back to Democrat Sam Rayburn and then to step down to his familiar post as minority leader. From the opening-day scramble Rayburn took time out for an act of simple kindness. With his office full of Congressmen, job-seekers and admirers, Rayburn got an apologetic telephone call from Ohio's freshman Representative Thomas Ludlow Ashley. Ashley's 87-year-old grandmother was in Washington to see young (32) Lud sworn in. For more than...
...Martin-Rayburn transfer of office had a familiar ring: they had changed places three times before. It reminded Martin of "an old ditty that went something like this: 'Off agin, on agin, gone agin, Finnigin...
...Martin took his text from the late Strickland Gillilan's Finnigin to Flannigan. It seems that Railroad Section Boss Finnigin was writing overlong accident reports to Superintendent Flannigan, who told him to cut them down. One day some cars left the tracks, but the train soon went on its way. Concluded the verse...
...shmoky ol' lamp wuz burnin' bright In Finnigin's shanty all that night- Bilin' down his repoort, wuz Finnigin- An' he writed this here: "Musther Flannigan: Off agin, on agin, Gone agin.-Finnigin...