Word: harold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judge Harold R. Medina, a Trustee, said after the stormy meeting that freedom and responsibility "are the biggest things we have to make up our minds about," and that "the only way to train youth for responsibility was to give it responsibility...
...House side, Speaker Sam Rayburn, his battle gorge up, decided to contest the presidential veto without even consulting House Agriculture Committee Chairman Harold Cooley, who was back home in North Carolina. While Rayburn knew that he could not get the two-thirds vote necessary to override the veto, he felt sure that he could win the simple majority necessary to show that Ike was flouting the clear will of Congress. But Mister Sam's famed political antenna wasn't working...
Spruce in black coat and striped trousers, Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan was the very model of a Tory Cabinet member and Edwardian gentleman as he anxiously rose in the House of Commons to present his first budget...
...nation whose favorite weekly pastime is "having a flutter" by risking sixpence in football pools on the chance of winning $280,000, the proposal was hailed with glee. "Honest Harold always pays," headlined the Laborite Daily Mirror. "Give him your quid and you might win ?1,000. Gambling? Oh dear...
...Grumble. As expected, some church leaders grumbled about immorality. Laborite Harold Wilson taunted: "Now Britain's strength, freedom and solvency apparently depend on the proceeds from a squalid raffle." The left-wing New Statesman and Nation labeled Macmillan's proposal "the birth of the windfall state." But the august London Times defended the new bond, and so did the Financial Times...