Word: loused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 lOUs to let themselves be beaten in a vote that close. New York's Republican Representative Katharine St. George switched her vote to nay. So did Illinois' G.O.P. Representative Harold Velde. Others followed, and the Reed move was rejected, 206 to 199. The final vote on passage...
Beginner's Luck. In East St. Lous, Ill., convicted of stealing a single-engine airplane and flying it 95 miles before coming down unscathed, Farm Hand Charles G. Smeltzer explained that he had gone to the airport, climbed into the plane, "pulled on a few gadgets . . . and before I knew it, I was up in the air." Love's Old Sweet Song. In Knoxville, Tenn., John E. Weaver, filing a countersuit for divorce against Hattie Weaver, claimed she wrote a song describing their marriage entitled Thirty Years in Hell...
...keep on borrowing more and faster than his first debts fell due. As month after month he paid off on his lOUs, air force officers in droves sold their cars for his notes, which were soon known at all air bases as felipetas. When the Air Ministry heard of his dealings and called him in, the lieutenant explained himself so convincingly that the big brass offered to sell him their cars. But he was advised to switch to a reserve commission and give all his time to business...