Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...81st in action looked like a chart of atoms at work; particles were constantly breaking off from one nucleus to join another. Judging by the first six months, the 81st was proving footloose and independent-minded. The independence made it irritatingly slow at times; it also made for the kind of middle-of-the-road Congress which would never fully satisfy the Truman Fair Dealers, or satisfy the conservatives either, but would nevertheless leave behind it some solid achievements...
Majority Leader Lucas, who knew when he was licked, agreed to a vote on the Taft substitute and saw it pass by 49-44. Utah's stolid, scholarly Elbert Thomas, noting sadly that only the first two lines of his bill were left when Taft got through, disowned the whole business. At his suggestion the bill was renamed the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1949, but, as old Bill Green had indicated, it would be known familiarly as the Taft bill...
...Menace For the first time in three years the U.S. Treasury had to get out the red ink. It was a lusty $1,811,440,047.68 in the hole for fiscal 1949. The Government had spent $40,057,107,857.79-a peacetime record-while taking in only $38,245,667,810.11. The deficit was more than three times as much as Harry Truman forecast in his January budget message...
...Judy and Archie left the courtroom they were surrounded by a mob of 500 people, pushing, shoving, yelling. "Let me get a look at the hussy," demanded an old woman. "She ought to get a rope around her neck, that's what! I was a yeomanette in the first World War," said another...
...point he erred. He denied that, after Chambers' first charges against him, John Foster Dulles had asked him to resign as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Dulles came later to the stand to correct Hiss's recollection. With his memory bolstered by a written record of the conversation, Dulles, chairman of the trustees of the endowment, swore that he had told Hiss he thought he should resign...