Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...during hearings on reciprocal trade, rushed from the room, set up a telephone command post in a nearby office, alerted Speaker Sam Rayburn, huddled with other Democratic leaders, issued urgent orders for committee staffers to whip up a Democratic tax-cut bill the moment the White House moved. No matter what chips the Republican Administration threw onto the table against recession, the Democratic...
...shop more frequently. To Chamber of Commerce members, the proof was plain enough: Saturday-night business has been dropping regularly for years. Henceforth, Longmont stores 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...
Lawyers and airline experts think the CAB-and, for that matter, all agencies -should confine their hearings wholly to development of facts, call on contesting lawyers only when the facts are in doubt. Says one lawyer: "This would cut down the time of airline hearings from three months to three days." Both the Hoover Commission and the American Bar Association want more drastic changes; they recommend transfer of the agencies' judicial functions to the courts. This would free the agencies to investigate and make decisions, leave the courts to enforce their decisions with injunctions or penalties...
...past, it has been said, is the only thing man can change. Winston Churchill, the incredible ex-Hussar officer, has taken full reign over the terrible past. As he tells it, history becomes a matter not of blind forces but of men and the principles that animated them; schoolbook events take on the Shakespearean splendor of character and fate...
...certainly not a professional historian, would dare to box the compass of Churchill's subject matter. His great grasp of the essential fact made him, in power, a master of decision and, in the hindsight of history, a master of the precis. Never has so much been contained in so few words. He begins the last volume of his History of the English-Speaking Peoples in 1815, leaving Waterloo (reluctantly, it would seem) behind him to take on the task of shaping the whole course of the British Empire and the American Republic in the last century into...