Word: minority
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debate rolled into its second week, Speaker Sam Rayburn made one last effort to break the impasse. Knowing that the Administration's bill was a lost cause, he and his aides had cooked up five compromises which they hoped would attract votes. The provisions, with a few minor changes, were lifted from the Taft-Hartley Act itself. The most important of them was the one giving the President authority to use the weapon of injunction in national-emergency strikes...
Almost all crews now employ this technique with minor variations. Even Yale, which for the past two years has been rowing at fantastic beats, sometimes going as high as 45, has now changed its strategy in favor of the lower stroke...
...Bumstead family life has been a succession of major joys and minor frustrations. Dagwood is forever getting locked out of the house, losing the soap in the bathtub, or flattening the mailman while rushing frantically for the last bus to the office. But nothing really unpleasant ever happens to the Bumsteads...
...picture has a few minor virtues, most of them negative. It is less noisy and violent than most semi-documentaries of its kind and its heroics are less improbable. A cagey use of understatement throughout gives the film an air of reality that is not backed up by its plot...
Debate on H 442 is unlikely because discussion, and if possible a vote, on the Massachusetts budget is also scheduled for this afternoon and the Sullivan Bill is a relatively minor measure in the General Court...