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...idea. But Oregon Democrat Edith Green went and spoiled all the fun. "At the risk of being called an Aunt Jane, if not an Uncle Tom," she said, "let us not add any amendment that would get in the way of our primary objective." Her logic failed to impress the House. It passed the amendment, 168 to 133, to the delight of a woman in the gallery, who shouted, "We made it! We made it! God bless America!" She was promptly ejected...
...live and breathe the same free air. I don't think a name means anything. Just because you're a high official, it doesn't mean anything. It's the man behind the name. Suppose you are a high official, that doesn't impress me. Even a Communist may have wonderful views...
...seniority system are one of the few weapons they have to encourage party loyalty. Finally, they know that they, being more senior than most of their colleagues, will soon inherit choice committee chairmanships--if they can maintain patience with the present system! This argument would be likely to impress even Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.), whose liberal reputation might well keep him from a voted committee chairmanship. If the present rules are maintained, however, he will receive a chairmanship that no one could contest, simply by virtue of his seniority...
...Beef to Impress. Butchering still accounts for 80% of Armour's sales, but the business has changed vastly since Philip Danforth Armour, with $2,000,000 earned from short selling barrels of pork in the Civil War, helped make Chicago the hog butcher for the world. Big-city slaughterhouses, geared to seasonal rushes and stretches of idleness, have been replaced by busy little "country" abattoirs closer to such cattle towns as West Point, Neb., and Worthington, Minn. Meanwhile, since supermarkets buy out of Chicago and a few large centers, Armour has steadily closed down a quarter of the distributing...
...years, but lamb is declining everywhere except in New England, New York and Los Angeles. The real advance is in beef eating, which has risen 77% since 1940. "After all," explains Armour Chairman William Wood Prince, 50, "when a fellow takes a girl out and wants to impress her, he buys her beefsteak...