Word: jam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Medal for Labor. In the House, leaders were trying to jam through a labor law, already approved by the Senate, which would give the railroad unions the checkoff and the union shop (barred by the Railway Labor Act). Virginia's lean, conservative Howard Smith dourly protested. Smith didn't see "why we should confer the Medal of Honor on labor for pulling a railway strike when we've got a war in Korea." When Speaker Sam Rayburn persisted in trying to call up the bill, Smith demanded a roll call...
...Caspar Blandingses in a real jam can always be sure they'll find Ogden Nash coming to their defense in rubber-legged rhyme...
...Friday nights, lower Second Avenue resounds to simultaneous jam sessions at the Stuyvesant Casino (9th Street) and Central Plaza (6th). Ella Fitzgerald is at Birdland, Broadway near 52nd. Josh White and a cover charge go hand in hand at Cafe Society, Sheridan Square...
...loudspeaker, a band holding a jam session, Radcliffe girls and Yard cops helped add to the general confusion prevalent in the Union during the week...
...Three Cabots, a Coolidge and a Lowell joined in a group telegram to Truman and Acheson asking arbitration and concessions to the Communists. There were peeved cracks about MacArthur's misconstrued "home by Christmas" remarks-the familiar fate of a general in a jam and a public caught by surprise. There was outspoken criticism of the Administration. Said an Iowa filling-station operator: "They piddled around and piddled around. I wonder what the hell they were thinking about...