Word: musters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest congressional belt buckle was the tax reduction bill which Harry Truman had vetoed three weeks ago. Republicans had wrathfully introduced it again. They took another veto for granted. But they thought that by changing the effective date from July 1, 1947 to January 1948, they might muster enough strength to override the President. In the House, Speaker Joe Martin expected to ram the bill through early this week with better than a two-thirds majority, rush it along to the Senate...
...defend the U.S. homeland and to make a retaliatory attack, are six heavy bombardment groups and twelve fighter groups. None of them are at V-J day efficiency. The commanders who could once send 820 B-29s rumbling over Japan on a single strike, last month were able to muster only 101 for a practice raid over Manhattan. From a V-J day peak of 85,000 planes, the Air Forces are now down to 9,000 first-line aircraft, and 2,000 to 3,000 of them will pass over to reserve status each year...
...week Andy May was looking tired, old and sick. With the Garssons' own defense still to come, it would be at least a fortnight before the verdict was in. But Andy May's bluster was wearing thin. As the cross-examination wound up, the best he could muster was a threat to summon the full membership of his old committee, if necessary, to attest to his personal integrity...
...audience was variously entertained by a melange of unrelated items, best of which was Brenda Forbes' side-splitting version of the libretto of "Dio Walkure." Kaye Ballard, appealing young newcomer, displayed a good talent for putting over a humorous song; she would go far if only she could muster enough volume for the gallery seats. Further time was killed in a tongue-in-cheek attempt to portray "The American Tragedy" via the R-H (Rodgers and Hammerstein) formula. Dreiser is already dead, but his estate might find grounds for some sort of lawsuit here...
...months will Brazil's busy Supreme Tribunal consider the legality of Brazil's Communist Party. In the meantime, the battle between Dutra and the Communists centers on the still active Communist Congressmen. Only Congress itself can fire them, and Dutra's P.S.D. (Social Democrat Party) cannot muster the two-thirds majority to do it. Moreover, the opposition U.D.N. (National Democratic Union), which has backed Dutra on many an issue, refuses to go along on this one. U.D.N. Chief Jose Americo de Almeida had gone straight to President Dutra at squat Catete Palace and made that plain...