Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...willing, two-fisted debater, McCormack once spoke on 200 different subjects in a single year, had a memorable moment when he demolished Michigan's acidulous Republican Representative Clare Hoffman in the House's own florid parliamentary language: "I'm one of the few men in the House who still has a minimum high regard for the Gentleman from Michigan...
Paging the President. One of the loudest was Pennsylvania's tariff-championing Congressman Richard M. Simpson, whose key advice to candidates as congressional campaign chairman last fall had been to ignore the White House. Pressed to get back to his work in Congress, Simpson arranged to get on the program right after the delegates heard a message from...
DAYS A YEAR. Boomed Simpson, when he took the floor: "I'm encouraged. The President used the words 'make unremitting effort' of a political nature. We've been doing that for a long time. I call upon the White House to give us some of that unremitting political planned effort." He got heavier applause than the President...
...Hlasko declared: "I will be here a month or so, and then I will go back to Poland. I won't write any more. I'll get a job." Gulping a tranquilizer, he went on: "A writer without his country is nothing. Whatever the consequences, I'm going back. Good or bad, it's my country. I don't know from experience what will happen to me. When it happens, then I will have the experience...
American Red Cross President Alfred M. Gruenther, a four-star Army general at his retirement in 1956 after 38 years of commissioned service, smiled a thin smile in Omaha when reminded of the familiar G.I. gripe that officers have better luck than ordinary soldiers in dating Red Cross lasses on military duty overseas. Said Realist Gruenther, tersely: "They did, they do and they will...