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...which would have prevented a favorable report to the floor. After declaring "I am a determined man, I am playing for keeps," Dirksen sought to outflank the committee. He offered his amendment as a substitute for an unrelated measure (the designation of Aug. 31-Sept. 6 as National American Legion Baseball Week). He vowed: "If I get licked this time, I'll be here to hook it on any bill that comes before the Senate." His Democratic colleague from Illinois, Paul Douglas, pledged for the opposition: "We'll fight it out on this line if it takes...
Died. Brigadier General John Thomas Taylor, 79, a founder in 1919 of the still powerful American Legion (some 3,000,000 members); and its top lobbyist until his retirement in 1950, an imposing figure in grey spats and walking stick, who despite repeated presidential vetoes, was instrumental in securing an estimated $13 billion in benefits for veterans prior to World War II; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...teach all grades at once are ultimately insuperable, and the children often go into high schools unable to compete with pupils from bigger grade schools. Isenberg estimates that by 1970 there will be fewer than 5,000 one-room schools. The buildings will be torn down, sold as American Legion posts, or kept as reminders of the institution that first made possible the American ideal of universal education...
...everyday ones: these are "shifty eyed Japs," master-minded by sinister, moustachioed Dr. Dacquar (played by J. Carroll Naish, the only actor whose name I recognized). Dacquar takes orders only from "Hirohito, Heavenly Ruler and Prince of the Rising Sun," and has set up headquarters for the treacherous "Legion of the New Order" deep in the bowels of a Chamber of Horrors. The fun house, which contains exhibits as subtle as four fierce and leering Japanese soldiers pointing bayonets at a beautiful white girl, is the only occupied building in "Little Tokyo, part of a fallen (foreign?) land lifted...
...Army captain, he received the Legion d'Honneur for his detective work in uncovering cached Nazi art loot...