Word: milliken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress was no longer listening to General Marshall with its old respect. Said Colorado's Eugene Milliken, "He's gotten into the habit of delivering ultimatums to Congress. He takes the same attitude toward Congress as he would to a striker who fails to put the proper polish on his boots...
There, Republicans were divided and moved more cautiously. Senators Robert Taft and Arthur Vandenberg swung their weight behind Finance Chairman Eugene Milliken's proposal for a $4.5 billion cut. Their most potent argument: the effect of a larger cut on U.S. military strength (see The Nation). President pro tem Vandenberg took the floor to warn his colleagues: "Any lapse in our purpose or resources . . . will be an open invitation to Soviet Russia to fill the vacuum. . . . We dare not present to the world a picture of Uncle Sam with a chip on each shoulder and both arms...
Warren Gage Milliken...
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When John L. Severance died six years ago, nobody knew for sure how many millions he had spent on culture for Cleveland. Because he had no direct heirs, his baronial 180-acre estate went to a second cousin, Severance A. Milliken, husband of Broadway Actress Marta Abba (Tovarich). The contents of the mansion, one of the finest private art collections in the Middle West, he had willed to the Cleveland Art Museum...