Word: gored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supply cheaper power by building new steam plants with Government money. The Administration held that even if TVA could do the job more cheaply, the Government should stay out of the steam-plant business as much as possible. Led by Senators from the TVA area, e.g., Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore and Alabama Democrat Lister Hill, public-power enthusiasts, mostly Democrats, sided with the TVA. They decided to fight for a rider on the AEC bill that would block the Eisenhower order...
Deep into the night, Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore, the filibusterers' field general, relieved his speakers by peppering questions at them from time to time and bringing up fresh troops according to a carefully worked out speaking schedule. Knowland, on the other hand, was getting little assistance from Republicans, and less sleep. The talkers gleefully baited...
...morning Millikin padded into the Senate, got the attention of the chair, asked the clerk to read a spanking new amendment his staff had pieced together overnight. (It would give a $20 tax credit to every individual not benefiting from other provisions of the bill.) Tennessee's Albert Gore wanted to know why Millikin had been so late in introducing his amendment. What was the motivation? Blandly, Millikin made his reply: "The motivation of the sequence of things to come before the Senate is to be found in the decisions that are made leading to these developments." Translated, this...
...year trade-agreement extension. With the contented smile of a cat after swallowing the canary, Dan Reed proclaimed: "I'm part of the Administration." Maple & Vine. Democrats saw a way to make political hay of the President's abrupt retreat. Tennessee's Freshman Senator Albert Gore announced that he would try to substitute the Randall proposals (threeyear extension, authority to cut all tariffs 5% per year) for the one-year extension...
...Said Gore: "If for the second year in a row the supporters of international trade kept silent, the sentiment for world trade might start to wither on the vine. And the rest of the world might get the wrong idea of what we really stand for." Gore's ideas about world trade go back to his early days in Carthage, Tenn., when, as a young schoolteacher, he made friends with a fellow townsman named Cordell Hull. Sometimes, when Gore met Hull on the Courthouse Square, they would sit on the roots of a big sugar-maple tree...