Word: nosedives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leader Joe Martin, a return to the old rules might check a "destructive trend . . . toward bankruptcy and eventually a socialist state." Illinois' sharp-nosed Leo Allen, who pigeonholed the housing bill in the days when he ran the Rules Committee in the 80th Congress, held out an even brighter...
This was the man who was the nation's twelfth Secretary of Commerce, a job which has, at one time or another, fallen to an oddly contrasting lot of personalities : Herbert Hoover, a high-collared symbol of Republican conservatism; Harry Hopkins, the frail, dedicated symbol of the Roosevelt revolution...