Word: mason
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reed: "So you want to hear from the little guns first?" Replied Chairman Smith: "There are no little guns in Congress." Dan Reed took a seat at the foot of the table. Behind him, under an ornate gold-leaf mirror, sat another staunch protectionist, Illinois' Republican Representative Noah Mason, his cherub cheeks aglow with excitement. Cried Reed: "I formed my opinion about low tariffs as an infant during the Administration of Grover Cleveland. Yes, I formed my opinions when, gentlemen"-Reed paused to glare around the table-"when, gentlemen, I walked miles and miles to sell a dozen eggs...
...still remember how Mussolini's son bragged-bragged, mind you-about trade with us, and where did it go? To make bombs to rain down on poor innocent women and children." Down went Reed's fist, papers and pencils flew helter-skelter, and Noah Mason chortled. Mississippi's Colmer, in an artistic piece of understatement, remarked to Reed: "Well, I take it you're opposed to the bill?" Reed replied in kind: "I lean that way." Noah Mason, who knew that Reed was as bitterly opposed to the bill as he, doubled over in laughter, nearly...
...Stunner. Congressman followed Congressman in assault on the bill. Cried Illinois' Mason: "Just remember all of those billions we have given away and what good did it do us? All those foreign countries hate America. Thank God I didn't vote a penny for the giveaway program." West Virginia's Democratic Representative Cleveland Bailey rambled for 30 minutes, then said: "Now I'll pass on rapidly to the subject at hand." Chairman Smith glanced at the Navy-type, 24-hour clock on the wall, murmured: "Thank you." A few minutes later, Smith called for a vote...
...Best actor: Humphrey Bogart (The Caine Mutiny); Marlon Brando (On the Waterfront); Bing Crosby (The Country Girl); James Mason (A Star Is Born); Dan O'Herlihy (Adventures of Robinson Crusoe...
...week's end, Federal Housing Administration Commissioner Norman P. Mason, who is negotiating to get some of the windfall money back from some 6,500 other building projects, said that he would keep right on trying. BIR. which has 1,400 other suits pending to reclaim an estimated $1.5 billion in taxes on similar building profits, plans to appeal the Tax Court decision. But its chances look bleak...