Word: overtoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senators Overton and McKellar tried to force an amendment limiting "flight skins" to a maximum of $1,500 a year. Junior officers could still take comfort: nobody below the rank of major, and only a few majors, would be affected-but senior officers in both services clamored loudly...
...became clear that William Green's A.F. of L. was out hot & heavy to beat the grey-haired, wide-eyed New Dealer. The argument: he was hooked up to C.I.O., hence would be influenced in decisions on wages and labor problems. Said Louisiana's paunchy John H. Overton, who led the fight against confirmation: "Our merchant marine is resting now on a powder keg because of the antagonism between the C.I.O. and A.F. of L. I don't want to light the fuse." Said Illinois' Scott Lucas, leading the fight for the Administration, "the basic reason...
...traditional place. Florida's New Deal stalwart, Senator Claude Pepper, had been having great difficulty in his primary race for reelection. Now, liberal or no liberal, he hopped nimbly on the bandwagon: "The South will allow nothing to impair white supremacy." Said Louisiana's Senator John H. Overton: "The South, at all costs, will maintain the rule of white supremacy." And a desperate call to arms came from another candidate for reelection: Senator Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith of South Carolina. He told his constituents: "All those who love South Carolina and the white man's rule...
John Holmes Overton, Democratic Senator from Louisiana, denounced a contemplated new tax on fur coats, demanded exemption for styles costing under $150. "I'm not talking about the $2,000, $5,000, $10,000 fur garments," he said, "but I'm talking about those cheap little $200 fur coats these poor little working girls have to have as an absolutely necessary item to keep themselves warm as they go to war plants to make munitions...
...class. Almost before it could take its intended place, this department found it necessary to retrench. Of its five original tutors, only three remain. Donald V. McGranahan, instructor in Psychology, and Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, have been replaced by John T. Dunlop, Faculty instructor in Economics, and Overton H. Taylor, lecture on Economics At present the field has no tutors from either the Government or Psychology Department...