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...PAUL A. JORGENSEN Berkeley, Calif...
...point Congressmen laughed-at the President's crack that discussing all the difficulties in the bill would make his message as confused as the bill itself. At 4:22 p.m. Tally Clerk Hans Jorgensen completed the count: 228 to override the veto (every Republican vote except four), 154 to sustain...
...earth, sky, planes above, planes below, all mixed with ack-ack puffs as our pilot twisted, turned, sideslipped. . . . Someone shouted: 'There he is, for God's sake, open fire.' A machine gun started clicking and shell cases flew all over the place. I looked at Jorgensen [the pilot] and thought he was hit, but it was only muscular contraction as bullets whizzed past. One of the gunners shouted that he had knocked down a Messerschmitt and Frost [a gunner] got a second one. Over the interphone I heard Frost tell Jorgensen: 'I got him, sir. There...
...roll call began; 45 minutes of grinding suspense as the clerk growled out the 432 names, listened for an answer, repeated the vote. The jammed galleries seemed hung over the rails. The little tally meter of Tally Clerk Hans Jorgensen registered 204 aye votes, 201 nay votes. (Twenty-seven were not voting.) Hubbub boiled about the rostrum...
More gravely than if he were picking Miss America, David Lasser had his witnesses choose Mr. & Mrs. WPA Worker of 1938. As the No. 1 Missus of Relief, they named Mrs. Stanley Jorgensen of Provo, Utah. Provo merchants had chipped in $100 to pay her way to Washington so she could ask for more WPA money to go into storekeepers' tills. Mrs. Jorgensen's husband supports her and two children on $44 a month, of which he pays $15 for rent on a single room, $18 for groceries. A Mormon, Mrs. Jorgensen said her church's famed...