Word: hards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...historic background of the Senate's temporary quarters, Majority Leader Scott Lucas reminded his colleagues: "Clay, Calhoun, Webster and Hayne in those days decided some very important issues ... I would not be surprised if history repeated itself." Just what this fine-sounding remark really meant was hard to say. Perhaps Lucas was only trying to suggest that since there were important issues still to be decided, Congressmen might possibly rise to the stature of Clay, Calhoun, Webster & Co. in meeting them. If that is what he meant, his optimism was understandably guarded...
...Taft called such a notion "cowardly, pusillanimous and illogical." His own proposition would cross the t's and dot the i's: in the event of peril to the nation, the President should be permitted to enjoin strikers and/or seize plants for a period of 60 days. Hard-pressed Majority Leader Lucas tried to win last-minute friends to the Administration's Thomas bill giving the President power to seize plants (usually a more potent weapon against management than labor). Florida's Spessard Holland wanted an amendment to do just the opposite and permit injunctions...
...Playwright Arthur Miller's tragedy of an American who loses out by trying too hard...
...makers of Silver Lining tried hard to include everything. There are ornate period sets of hotels and music halls, a touch of Uncle Tom's Cabin played in blackface by Marilyn's family, and the 1918 Armistice exploding in headlines and parades. Everything, in fact, is so crowded and cluttered (including the sound track which now & then goes slightly hoarse) that little room is left for nostalgia. In the midst of the uproar Miss Haver sweats out two whole decades and a dozen styles of dance routines. Though fresh and appealing in her pigtail period, she is never...
...Hard-digging Reporter Malcolm Johnson won a Pulitzer Prize for his carefully documented series of stories...