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Word: largemouth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1959-1959
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...Speaker of the House) to keep the chauffeured Cadillac and most of the extra staff of the leadership office he lost to Indiana's Congressman Charles Halleck. Mr. Sam grandly ruled unanimous consent on his surprise package, despite a noisy objection from Tennessee's loose-tongued Ross ("Largemouth") Bass,*who said it was "an unusual precedent." ¶ Pennsylvania's six-term Republican Congressman Carroll Kearns, onetime Chicago Symphony soloist (baritone) fights a lonely battle for his muse on lawyer-dominated Capitol Hill. Says Kearns, who, at the request of Secretary of State Dulles, recently conducted four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Notes from the Hill | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

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