Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first item was highway construction. Next came the Administration's military-reserve program. Snapped the President: "This is vital to all of us. Why are we fooling around about it?" He returned to his list: military survivor benefits, housing and health legislation, school construction. When he got to mutual-security authorization and appropriations, he commented acidly: "If anything should go through in a hurry, that should...
...vote, the House passed the $3.2 billion mutual-security bill (also listed by the President). At one point in the debate, Wisconsin's Republican Representative Alvin O'Konski, soaring high on oratorical wings, nearly persuaded the House to refuse $50 million in aid to Yugoslavia. Cried O'Konski: "I'd rather appropriate $1 billion to the Devil!" Only last-minute pleas by House Speaker Sam Rayburn and G.O.P. Leader Joe Martin saved the grant to Yugoslavia...
...education has a way of staying put. "Post quinquaginta annos amicitiae mutuae" it wired its counterparts at Harvard, "alumni Universitatis Yalensis hie in Novo Portu congregati classi simili Harvardensi salu-tem plurimam dicimus." As any Harvard-man would know, this was another way of saying: "After 50 years of mutual friendship, we alumni of Yale University assembled here in New Haven express affectionate greetings to the corresponding class of Harvard...
...automobile-insurance companies, probably the most exclusive is Preferred Risk Mutual of Des Moines. It sells policies only to teetotalers. Before an applicant is approved he must first sign a pledge stating: "I do not use alcoholic beverages and will not do so for the term of this policy," and then undergo a special check in his community...
...battery of writers headed by Nobel Prizewinner William Faulkner, but he is probably not responsible for the film's prize anachronistic line: when the high priest recoils from villainous Joan Collins, she snaps back in British accents with the devastating Bronx locution: "The feeling is mutual...