Word: peppered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea of putting Congress on the air might appeal to many a U.S. citizen, but to most Congressmen the idea is nightmarish. Last week the nightmare threatened them: Senator Claude Pepper of Florida had introduced a joint resolution calling for Congressional debate on the national networks...
Congress can be expected to keep Senator Pepper's proposal a bad dream for some time to come, but the Senator has great hopes for the future. Manhattan Station WMCA is with him, has already offered its facilities...
...heard all over the chamber: "Now what is that son of a bitch going to talk about?" After adjournment, Speaker Garner told House electricians: "Get that damned thing off of there! I don't need it, and I won't have it ! " New Zealand Does It. Senator Pepper's Joint Resolution No. 145, now locked up in the Senate Committee on Rules, has its precedents. For the last eight years New Zealand has broadcast its Parliamentary debate - with apparent benefits to all concerned (TIME, Nov. 1, 1943). Manhattan's station WNYC broadcast the proceedings...
...speech was not political." Republicans grabbed up their own adjectives and leaped in. They demanded that the networks give Tom Dewey equal time; they were refused. The Army's about-face even prompted a protest from Franklin Roosevelt's staunch backer, Florida's Senator Claude Pepper. "Let all the candidates be heard by the troops," said-he. "The President will be able to hold...
...addition to heading the Art Department and serving as professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Pepper is also Assistant Dean of the College of Letters and Sciences there. A member of the Harvard Class of 1913, he earned his doctor's degree here in 1916. He says that Parmer's lectures in the famous Philosophy 4 course here determined his changing from law to philosophy...