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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eight Finance Committee irresponsibles voted for the major changes. The Democrats: New Mexico's Clinton Anderson, Delaware's J. Allen Frear, Oklahoma's Robert Kerr, Louisiana's Russell Long, Florida's George Smathers. The Republicans: Indiana's William Jenner, Nevada's George Malone, Pennsylvania's Edward Martin. Often thought of as a blinkered old fogy, Virginia's Committee Chairman Harry Byrd. 71, rose to his responsibility by backing the House's version...
Critical Ignition. In Milwaukee, when a court wanted to know why Lester J. Schneider had obtained 15 delays of his trial for arson, Schneider's attorney explained that his client had on separate occasions been hit by a train, operated on for appendicitis, hospitalized also for a kidney ailment, a sprained ankle, and injuries resulting from a fall from the roof of a barn...
...Harold J. Kennedy and Albert Penn have provided sure-handed direction on a suitably run-down set by Stuart Whyte. And someone deserves a program credit for Miss Bartley's outlandish costumes...
Gilbert and Sullivan, the Statue of Liberty, and James Whitcomb Riley also emerge among the bloodied victims of Monocle's shillelagh subtlety. Charles J. Prentiss's "Remembrance of Past Things," some peppered nostalgia for the soap-box liberal (in poetic form), is the only passable selection in the current issue's seventeen attempts...
Architrusty. In Florence, Ariz., J. J. Isbell was locked up in the city jail, soon noticed that the hinges on his cell door had been put on on the inside, pulled out the pins, pushed over the door and walked...