Word: hills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quick Confirmation. Meanwhile, up on Capitol Hill, Senator Arthur Vandenberg brought Hoffman's appointment before the Senate for confirmation. Said Vandenberg: during the months of discussion, the man most frequently mentioned for the job had been 56-year-old Paul Hoffman. Hoffman, said Vandenberg, "was found to be the common denominator of the thought of the nation." Hoffman was also well aware of the need to cooperate with Congress, Van added reassuringly. The Senate confirmed him unanimously, in 10 minutes...
Oath of Office. The State Department had requisitioned five floors for ECA in Washington's new Maiatico Building on Connecticut Avenue. From Capitol Hill Congress watched jealously, suspicious of State's activities, determined to squash any signs of State Department influence over ECA. House Appropriations Committee Chairman John Taber was already complaining that State had loaded ECA with "expensive furniture." Hoffman was beginning to get an idea of some of the pitfalls...
...educational deficiency"-enough for 40 combat divisions. Another 302,838 were drafted but classified as illiterate. The twelve states with the worst educational rejection records were all relatively poor, relatively populous Southern states which spent the least (per capita) on public education. Explained Alabama's Senator Lister Hill, one of the bill's sponsors: "The children are where the money...
Hurler Ira Godin, who fell prey Friday to an attack of hives, was released from Stillman yesterday morning, and may well be fit to go on the hill today. Should Godin be fit, Coach Dolph Samborski can erase one worry from his state: He won't have to use sore-handed Red Connelly for more work than he can take comfortably...
Provocation. While American Tobacco was headed by the elder George Washington Hill, Adman Foote had never openly questioned its raucous advertising of Lucky Strikes. "Would you argue with Babe Ruth," he explained, "if he were showing you how to hold a bat?" But after the elder Hill died a year and a half ago and 71-year-old Vincent Riggio succeeded him as president, Foote, like the younger Hill, was gradually provoked to a point beyond the bounds of "respectful disagreement," finally decided to quit...