Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...m a soldier in the ranks," wailed Brooklyn Democrat Manny Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. "I've got to do what the Speaker wants me to do." What House Speaker Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn, 76, wanted, instead of a constitutional amendment, was a simple congressional statute that would give Congress the dominant voice in deciding whether a President is disabled and whether a Vice President ought to take over as Acting President. And after two hours of hot opposition to Mister Sam's ukase, the Judiciary Committee last week voted to send even the Celler version...
...will stay open on Wednesday night for late shoppers, close early on Saturday night. Said a C. of C. member: "It was strictly a matter of yielding to the agrarian revolution and the tempo of our times." Added a farmer wistfully: "It was a great institution, and I'm sorry it's gone...
...home of screeching tires and carbon monoxide; farmlands are sliced into pieces that can no longer be economically worked. The uprooted may agree with Seattle Art Dealer Zoe Dusanne, whose home and gallery overlooking Lake Union will soon disappear before the Everett-Seattle-Tacoma Freeway. Says she: "I'm a great believer in progress. But what a pity progress has to cost so much...
...movement. Nowhere last week was the common aptitude better stated than in Woburn, Mass., where Gas Station Owner Joe Hanson was moving his house an eighth of a mile and building a new gas station to accommodate a wider, smoother, brighter, speedier Route 93. Said Joe Hanson: "I'm sure I'll get a fair deal from the state. I won't be compensated for my inconvenience. But I'll end up with a better business. I'll live in a better community. Things will be all right after it's all over...
...better than animals, and that when a man hates cultured people it is usually because he secretly feels they are better than he is. Clever fellow that he is, Gable also learns that Day is a girl, and he soon persuades her he needs special instruction. "I'm afraid we'll have to work together at night," she says. He nods, appreciatively inspecting the educational facilities, as she innocently inquires: "What sort of things would you like to tackle?" Needless to say, education is wedded to experience in the end, but by that time the point is labored...