Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress tried its wings last week, with the Democrats triumphantly in control, it seemed almost like old times. Old familiar faces, which had all but disappeared from sight during the two-year Republican interregnum, turned up again at the head of congressional committee tables. Veterans of the early New Deal, like West Virginia's demagogic Matt Neely, 74, unpacked in Washington, back from political exile. As in the old New Deal days, congressional corridors were crowded with eager Democratic freshmen, anxious to get their first speeches off their chests...
...Taft bill would have passed out 300 million dollars to the states for elementary and secondary schools. Each state was to get a minimum of five dollars for each child; and the poorer states were scheduled to get more--up to nearly 30 dollars per head in Mississippi. Taft figured that he had the biggest bugaboo whipped--federal "dictatorship" in the little red schoolhouse. He said, in debate: "The only function of the federal government would be that of an auditor.... It will have no more to say about the exact method by which education shall be administered...
...York Times's Anne O'Hare McCormick does not match Hollywood's picture of the dashing foreign correspondent. Tiny (5 ft. 2 in.), elderly (67) Anne McCormick looks as if she would be more at home sipping tea with heads of state, which she frequently does. But last week Journalist McCormick, in addition to writing her column three times a week, was clambering up & down the mountains of Greece, and doing a workmanlike job of reporting the guerrilla war. Guided by Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet, head of the U.S. Military Mission, she journeyed to mountain...
...past two years Miss Nicholas served as head of the production crew, designing the sets for last spring's Idler presentation. "A Phoenix Too Frequent," and this year's "Way of the World...
Replacing Miss Nichols as head of production is her co-manager last year, Edith Sloan '50. Ann Simmons '51 will take over the dramatic society's secretarial post...