Word: franks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile Mills allowed his committee to consider an unprecedented scheme that would grant a tax increase but rescind it during any month in which spending exceeded a predetermined figure. Rebels on the Appropriations Committee acted to more purpose. Led by Ohio Republican Frank Bow, they forced a committee vote on a measure that would limit spending during the current fiscal year to $131.5 billion-$5 billion less than the President's administrative budget estimate -with nonmilitary programs bearing the burden of the cut. Appropriations Chairman George Mahon, a Johnson supporter and fellow Texan, managed to defeat the measure...
...from agencies in Washington." Because the Federal Government is "good at collecting revenues and rather bad at disbursing services," federal money should be shared generously with state and local authorities on a "permanent, ongoing basis." Initiative in using the money should be left to the locality. "Let us be frank. The original, determining opposition to this proposition has come from liberals, not conservatives, in Washington, and we should be ashamed of ourselves...
...Professor Joseph Beale. Replied Beale coldly: "Sir, I suggest that you transfer to the divinity school." That pre-World War II exchange is not much different from the give-and-take in today's Harvard Law lecture rooms. "Mr. Marcuss, what is constitutionally objectionable about this ordinance?" Professor Frank Michelman asked recently. "It's discriminatory, sir," said Marcuss. "Discriminatory," boomed Michelman. "Can you name one regulatory act that is not discriminatory? Is it not the very nature of regulation to discriminate...
Pain has been an inescapable part of being a Red Sox fan for many years also because the Red Sox have had so many capable individuals. Remember Frank Malzone, Eddie Bressoud, Chuch Schilling, Dick Stuart, Bill Monboquette, Felix Mantilla? All good ballplayers, in their way. Yet despite their presence the Sox had long languished in the depths of the American League...
Died. Martin Block, 64, radio's original platter and patter man; during heart surgery; in Englewood, N.J. "It's Make-Believe Ballroom time," purled the theme song. "Put all your cares away." And millions did-to the tunes of Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore. For the Ballroom's affable host, the recorded performers always came alive. "Great job, Benny," Block would applaud. "You never sounded better." The make-believe began in 1935 at New York's WNEW when Block's boss told him to pad news bulletins from the Lindbergh kidnap trial...