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...Barkley this was a high-handed, impetuous insult to the Democratic majority. Solemnly he rose at his front-row desk in the Senate and, in a low and sometimes choking voice, told off Franklin Roosevelt for "his effort to belittle and discredit Congress." He concluded: "Mr. President, let me say . . . that if the Congress of the United States has any self-respect yet left, it will override the veto." The Senate roared, cheered and stamped. The veto was overridden in both houses. At a party caucus Barkley resigned as F.D.R.'s majority leader and, minutes later, was unanimously...
...Insult." The convention's key business was a resolution on the steel dispute. "We cannot and will not," it said, "continue indefinitely to work in 1952 for 1950 wages, and working conditions . . ." But the resolution, still playing by the rules of Government seizure, set no deadline for strike action...
...best to present the facts to their students. And--you must have in mind another factor. That Mr. Fairbank has just as much of a right to hold the opinions he has as Mr. Dwelly. It is a most tasteless and dis-considerate--not to say intolerant--attitude to insult him on this account...
Strictly Bush! In Boston, after a particularly bitter exchange with Durocher during one tight game, Stanky loosed his famed insult: "Durocher, you've been a busher all your life, and you'll always be a busher." When asked to comment on Durocher's book, The Dodgers and Me, Stanky was ready with a brief, stinging literary criticism: "Just like the author. Strictly bush...
...completely the patient's attitude towards nervous instability has changed is best appreciated," says Sir Charles, "by doctors who can look back 20 or 30 years to a time when it was almost regarded as an insult to suggest to a man that his 'nerves' were his trouble, and who now see one after another coming to tell him that 'his nerves have gone' or that he has just had, or fears that he is 'on the verge of,' a nervous breakdown...