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House he would not use the entire ten minutes that had been allotted him. The House applauded. Bailey uttered a last-gasp snarl: "I don't see how the President can really be very much concerned about it. The ticker just carried the word that he is going out to Burning Tree to play golf." Finally, the House voted on Dan Reed's motion to recommit. When the roll had been called, it seemed that the protectionists had won, 201 to 200. But Joe Martin, Indiana's Charles Halleck, and Les Arends had too many outstanding political...
...letter, written to Barkley as acting majority leader immediately after the death of Majority Leader Joe Robinson, was Roosevelt's last-gasp effort to revive his Supreme Court packing bill in Congress. By addressing "Dear Alben," Roosevelt indicated his preference for Barkley over a powerful rival for the leadership, Mississippi's Pat Harrison. Barkley squeaked into the job by a vote...
Neither was a great surprise. In its 6½ years the Great Adless Experiment had cost Publisher Marshall Field III more than $4 million. Ingersoll's plaintive plea last June for 100,000 more readers had been generally regarded as a last-gasp try for profits on circulation alone. But circulation last week was just 170,755-only 5,000 more than when Ingersoll cried for help, and nowhere near enough...
...worked like devils to make some sort of defense. On a perimeter about two miles out of the town they set up a line of foxholes, manned by the 101st's paratroopers. Stationed nearby were groups of tanks and tank destroyers. Just outside the town was a last-gasp inner defense circle, manned largely by the stragglers. Slight (5 ft. 8 in., 135 lb.), salty Brigadier General Anthony Clement McAuliffe, the 101st's acting commander charged with holding Bastogne, called them his "Team Snafu." Inside the town was a reserve force of tanks and tank destroyers, to dash...
This year U.S. shoppers took the advice of the department stores to "Buy in November." Last week's Federal Reserve Board figures on retail sales showed that department store sales for the third week in November hit 201% of the 1935-39 average, a new high for November that was 21% above the same week in 1942. But they were still 50% below the last-gasp, before-Christmas rush a year...