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Lausche is justly proud of his conservation program. After a bitter struggle with the mining lobby, he pushed through a law to force the strip miners of eastern Ohio to cover up their eroding handiwork after a mine is depleted. Under his direction 27 million trees have been planted to replenish the state's dwindling forests. His position on civil rights might give pause to his Southern supporters in the showdown. During the Democrats' two-year heyday in Columbus, Lausche nearly won passage of a Fair Employment Practices Act with enforcement features. Said Lausche in his 1955 message...
Frenchmen examined their handiwork with a national headshake of disbelief. The support accorded the Communists and Poujadists put a third of Parliament (36% of the popular vote) into the hands of men publicly opposed to parliamentary democracy. The remainder, a workable majority if combined, was decisively split between forces of relatively similar philosophies but bitterly conflicting ambitions and allegiances...
regards all foreign aid as the devil's handiwork, greeted the New Year with a renewed resolution not to pay so much as a penny of his 1955 income tax until he gets a Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of "squandering" U.S. tax dollars overseas...
...Handiwork. In Chicago, with a divorce suit pending. Mrs. Eleanor Fitzpatrick had her husband summoned to court on a charge that he "tormented" her by constantly snapping his fingers under her nose...
...second Major Bowes. Bowes used tc muff the English language. Ed does too. But the thing about the two of them is their genuineness and truthfulness. So we said, 'We'll buy Sullivan for 13 weeks.' " The 13 weeks has lengthened into seven years. Contemplating his handiwork, Bayne remarks: "Every period since then we've put more money into the show, and, to tell the truth, it's millions of dollars a year. I don't know if it's worth it any more, but there you are: Sullivan is Mercury, Mercury...