Word: hatch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finale. Despairing of victory, unable to dent Mr. Hatch's annoying highmindedness, griped at Mahout McNary's now open grins, New Dealers began a mild filibuster. With the Senate geared to take up farm appropriations and the reciprocal trade agreements, plan was to talk the Hatch Bill into a pigeonhole. Eloquent Mr. Lee took the floor for a 90-minute speech on farm tenants' problems. To smiling Mahout McNary (one of a half-dozen drowsing Senators listening) reporters sent in a query: Was the Lee speech a filibuster? Mr. McNary answered: "Filibuster? I consider this the greatest...
...Cowboy Carl" Hatch of New Mexico, author of the 1939 act barring Federal employes from active politicking, last week rammed through the Senate Elections committee a new bill spreading the ban to the 500,000 State employes who are partly paid by the U. S. Government. Squawks came from Indiana's Minton (chum of Paul V. McNutt); from Tennessee's "Crumpet" Stewart (stooge of Memphis' Boss Ed Crump) and Illinois' Lucas (collaborator with Chicago's mayor-Boss Ed Kelly...
...Gymnasts are primed to upset the invading Ulenmen, and if their medley trio of Milligan, Pincombe, and Hatch manages to nose out the regular Crimson Bosworth, Waldron, Stowell combination, the meet may not be decided until the final free relay. There, however, Harvard has at least a three second edge...
Hanging by one hand to the corner of a tarpaulin and swinging over this abyss with kicking legs was a little girl. She and two others had been playing on top of the hatch -the other two had been killed. I saw a soldier pull her to safety, and she was eventually saved...
...made fast. We were then towed about for two hours. They tried first to salvage an empty lifeboat but the bottom had been stove in. They then picked up one poor woman who was clinging to a piece of wood, and an unconscious man who was starfished on a hatch board. He was covered with engine oil and had a great bloody eye. It was my friend and cabin steward, Dickson...