Word: peppered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Already in the hopper was another bill, by Florida's stanch New Deal Senator Claude Pepper, to outlaw poll taxes altogether...
...example. Congressmen asserted their right to X cards, stood ready to fight any suggestion that they should sacrifice, too. A sly resolution by California's Senator Sheridan Downey asking Congress to waive "any special rights, privileges," raised a fearful storm, was crushed by a 62-to-2 vote. (Pepper of Florida was Downey's lone supporter...
Great-Grand-Daddy. Henry Ford is 78 and a great-grandfather, but he is still lively, curious and productive. His shoulders are stooped by his years, his neat salt-&-pepper suits hang loosely on his spare limbs. But his body is still tough, his bright eyes dart restlessly as the fingers of a machine. The Ford Motor Co. is, as ever, a one-man show...
Planted wherever lettuce will grow, celtuce grows with beanshoot speed. Its pale green stalk is tastiest eaten raw with salt. Best way to cook it: boiled, seasoned with salt & pepper, served with butter or "vinaigrette; or baked au gratin. The young leaves qualify for salads...
...dinner in Washington, sponsored by the New Republic to celebrate the ninth anniversary of the New Deal, a group of high-up New Dealers (including Mr. Justice Hugo Black, Senators Pepper of Florida, Mead of New York, Hill of Alabama, Murray of Montana, Sidney Hillman, et al.) heard Attorney General Francis Biddle. He declared that the New Deal had been successful "because it is a political party tied up with the labor movement under an able political leader...