Word: mc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American Spelling Book fed him huge doses of phonics, and with their high-toned tales about the perils of sin, Mc-Guffey's Readers did the same. But by the middle of the last century, the educators had already begun to revolt...
...amount of steam required to pull a locomotive, you'd better be careful, or you'll blow the thing up." No one was more aware of this than the U.S. Government's monetary and fiscal experts. From the start, the Federal Reserve Board under Chairman William Mc-Chesney Martin kept a steady hand on the nation's economic throttles. The trick was to keep credit easy enough to have a full head of steam, so that the economy would clip along full speed, yet not blow up into an inflationary boom and bust. As credit soared...
Switching Trains. In 1953 Senator Collins' close friend, Governor Dan Mc-Carty, died in office. Under the state constitution, he was succeeded by the President of the Senate, one Charley Johns, a former railroad conductor, who as a legislator had voted to put the brakes on improving educational standards and against a law to unmask the Ku Klux Klan. Roy Collins ran against Johns for the final unexpired two years of McCarty's term. Collins took his stand against what he called the "muster of the vultures." Despite Johns's lavish promises of road construction projects...
Once, playing first base, he shoved his big right paw into his hip pocket for a plug of chewing tobacco. Sam McMackin, the Paterson pitcher, went into his windup. Honus shouted for time; he waved his gloved hand and jumped wildly to attract Mc-Mackin's attention. McMackin pitched anyway. The batter grounded to short...
...Arkansas Democrat John Mc-Clellan, the investigators said they hoped frankly that gentle Hugh Cross, hitherto a highly reputable public servant, would resign. Hugh Cross decided last week not to stay and fight. In a letter of resignation to President Eisenhower, he called the still-fuzzy charges against him "baseless." Wrote he: "I am realistic enough to know that, unfounded as they are, the mere pendency of such charges impairs my further service on the commission and its proper functioning in the public interest." Replying that he appreciated "the years of diligent service you have rendered." the President accepted star...