Word: letting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said, "I am speaking to minds that are closed." It is only reasonable, he pleaded, to give a far-reaching legislative idea a fair trial. Though popular Sam Rayburn has immense prestige, the Congressmen listened coldly. Seeing them unmoved, Sam made a brazen appeal to the patronage instinct: "Let me say to you, my Democratic friends, that I found out a long time ago that in this House the people get along the best who go along the most." He switched to ominous prophecy: "Some of these days, unless we pay a little more attention to the consumers of this...
Buckshot for a Juke Joint. The sheriff let himself down on the steps and talked softly. "You know that when you elected me, I was sworn to uphold the law," he said. "And I have to protect my prisoners." Anyway, he added, the prisoners had been rushed off to another jail for safekeeping. (A third suspect was in the jail at the time, but was sneaked off later...
...Communist-dominated World-Federation of Trade Unions created an International Union of Seamen and Dockers, with Harry Bridges as its president. Bridges could not accept the new post in person. He is under indictment for perjury in San Francisco (TIME June 6), and the judge thought it unwise to let him leave the country...
...opening round on Los Angeles' Rancho course, Mike DiCesaro of Houston got mad after losing to Ted Grassi of Erie, Pa. He let out a squawk to the rules committee, got Grassi disqualified for using clubs with illegal face grooves. Next day, Grassi followed DiCesaro around, heckling him continually and calling attention to his clubs, finally got him disqualified for using equally illegally grooved clubs...
Muriel Kaplan dared not let the baby out of her sight. She all but gave up her law practice. She and her husband Bernard (once a pro football player, now in a television business) were rooted to their home in New Rochelle, N.Y. Three times one of them sat up all night holding Sandy upright-she seemed to breathe easier that way. Twice she had to be rushed to hospitals and given oxygen. The family physician, Dr. Edwin Raymond, often gave Sandy artificial respiration...