Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the charms of Elizabeth Taylor, the only stars I would go out on a rainy night to see are Joan Crawford, Bette Davis and Clark Gable...
Boyle was sure the Dixiecrats could be brought into line. Said he: "Recognition is a politician's meat & drink. If they don't get it, they are nothing. I quoted Abraham Lincoln in my speech: 'I will go along with a man as long as he is going in my direction.' That's an invitation for sinners to march down the aisle. Those who don't march will be suffocated, as far as the National Committee is concerned...
...John and his business associates transportation, visas, and help from U.S. officers abroad. Before one wartime perfume-buying trip just after V-E day, Harry Vaughan informed the State Department that the President himself was "personally interested" in Pal John's travels-a suggestion which enabled John to go to Europe with a top priority I-D rating...
...steamy oratory, Congress was beginning to get that old feeling again. Congress had been hard at it for nearly eight months, and by Congress' own rules the Senators and Representatives were supposed to get five months' paid vacation a year. The House was in a mood to go home. In fact, dozens of members had already gone home. It was necessary to ask the other house's permission for adjournment, but it was traditional for permission to be given. But last week, by a vote of 58 to 25, the Senate sulkily ordered the House to stick...
...told his colleagues, that Congress would have to get over its easygoing ways. "The people hired us to stay here the year round, if necessary. It is not like the good old days, when Congress could meet, spend three weeks on the tariff, pass a few appropriation bills and go home...