Word: glens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remaining members of the permanent class committee, listed according to the number of votes they polled, include Joseph Anthony Lewis, of New York City and Lowell House; Chester Middlebrook Pierce, of Glen Cove, New York and Lowell House; John Bertrand Cadigan, Jr., of Dorchester; Harry Peter Haveles, of Roxbury; Jay Lawrence Fialkow, of Brookline and Adams House; Robert Stanley Leventhal, of Newton and Adams House...
...Kids of Glen Cove, L.I. gave a Chamber of Commerce Santa Claus a drubbing when his candy gave out and they discovered that the packages on his sleigh were nothing but dummies. Muttered one departing youngster: "Santa Claus is a liar...
...amount of aid be cut to $290 million, he was routed by a vote of 171 to 78. When Wisconsin's Lawrence Smith, with the backing of Charlie Halleck, proposed a $90 million cut, he could muster only 47 ayes to 147 noes. When Oklahoma's Glen D. Johnson, a heretical Democrat, moved to recommit (and thus kill) the bill, he was howled down. Finally, late one afternoon, Speaker Joe Martin took the entire House by surprise to do some howling down himself. Joe Martin banged his gavel, barked out: "All in favor of passage of the bill...
...woolly debate broke forth. In it, the leadership of Arthur Vandenberg, whose Foreign Relations Committee had reported out a bill giving the Administration the full sum it asked for, was sorely tested by his fellow Republicans. Patiently, Vandenberg accepted one carping amendment after another-e.g., Idaho's Glen Taylor insisted on having it down in black & white that aid funds should not be used to buy arms...
Smith also announced a meeting of those interested in assisting NSA's international activities for Monday at 3 o'clock. All that the young organization needs to carry out its concrete projects, he asserted, is "full cooperation." In this connection he pointed to the villagers of Glen Falls, New York, who are extending Christmas vacation hospitality to NSA-selected exchange students...