Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peering benevolently over the tops of his reading glasses, Georgia's canny Representative Carl Vinson clapped down his gavel and brought the proceedings to order. His Armed Services Committee had met to consider grave charges: that the Air Forces' controversial B-36 bomber, the nation's prime strategic weapon,,was a product of political finagling and outright crooked practices in high places...
This tightening up of a loosely drawn bill did not answer the reservations of such economizers as Georgia's Senator Walter George. But it was designed to fit the major objections of Republicans Arthur Vandenberg and John Foster Dulles. With their support, the prospects for some kind of arms program this year looked perceptibly brighter. Said Dulles: "There remain some problems. However, I think we are now in a good way to do the needful quickly...
...guests dug in. First there was a little buffet Frank had scraped together from his 100,000-acre hunting preserve in Choctaw County, Ala. and Deep Freeze lockers down home in Mobile -salmon from Quebec, venison from Alabama, elk from Montana, bear meat from the Okefenokee Swamp, turkey from Georgia, antelope from Chugwater, Wyo. Also a big batch of coon, possum and .'taters from Alabama's First Congressional District which, proclaimed the booming host, is God's country. Then, after a few cases of Scotch and bourbon to wash down the appetizers, there was the dinner itself...
Washington society noted an unlamented loss in Mrs. Harry S. Truman. At a party for Mrs. Perle Mesta, new U.S. Minister to Luxembourg, and Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark, new Treasurer of the U.S., Bess Truman displayed a new silhouette, 20 pounds slimmer than the old one. Her dietary secret: eating just what the President does, but passing up the salt...
...Little Thing Here ..." Off the diamond, Luke likes flashy ties and clothes (last week he appeared in a green gabardine number), fat black cigars and dry Martinis. Balding and somewhat spavined but not fat, he has a wife and three children, an eleven-acre place in Georgia where he keeps in shape during the offseason and where he expects to "relax" when his baseball days are over, whenever that...