Word: iou
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against him (TIME, June 15). Nursing a violent dislike built up during his years as a member and chairman of Capitol Hill's Joint Atomic Energy Committee, Anderson, to collect anti-Strauss votes, drew on his personal popularity in the Senate, drummed up party loyalty, and cashed every IOU he had for past favors rendered fellow Democrats...
...hustle a little. Promising a juicy committee assignment here, collecting an IOU there. Bridges knew just what Dirksen's margin would be (20-14) well before caucus time. By then he had another problem: such G.O.P. conservatives as Iowa's Bourke Hickenlooper, Kansas' Andy Schoeppel and Nebraska's Roman Hruska. angry over Cooper's refusal to surrender, plotted a surprise scheme to elect South Dakota's Karl Mundt to be party whip instead of California's Tommy Kuchel-thus take back the one top party post (out of four) that Bridges had offered...
...mind off his road's troubles, announced that the New Haven's finances were so poor it could not pay some $2,000,000 interest charges due May 1 on its 4½% general mortgage bonds. Instead it will defer the payment, write its stockholders an IOU, and hope for better times -while the unpaid interest accumulates, thus making the eventual reckoning just that much steeper...
...room which specializes in high powered cared games, a $400 IOU--paid--holds an honored place on the mantel...