Word: peppering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretty, rosy-cheeked Jessie Hazard Smith, an Edmonton housewife. Her dish: Alberta Gold Medal ranch steak, cut off the fillet, rump, sirloin or tenderloin, dipped in salad oil, grilled in a hot pan from eight to twelve minutes, spread with one tablespoon of butter and sprinkled with salt & pepper...
...extraordinary show. First, Republican Whip Kenneth Wherry tried to get an agreement on a time to vote. But Oregon's dapper New Dealing Republican Wayne Morse, who had opposed the Taft-Hartley bill from the beginning, objected to any closing of debate. Republican Morse joined with Democrats Claude Pepper, Harley Kilgore, Glen Taylor to filibuster...
Communists & Cough Drops. At 3:10 p.m. Florida's glib, long-nosed Claude Pepper began to speak. Between interruptions, he droned on until 6:50 p.m. Idaho's Glen Taylor, the Singing Cowboy, took the stage. He went into a routine of detailed statistical exposition, interspersed with sallies at Senators, the price of autos and the difficulties of living in a truck. He told a yarn about a Communist he worked with in a war plant in 1944. It took about 500 words and several minutes for Taylor to reach the point: ''The Communist would...
...strongest proponent of listeners-in on Congress is Florida's Claude Pepper, who for three years has been plugging a bill to legalize broadcasts. But the idea has some strong opponents. Says Ohio's Senator John Briclier: "Silly idea." Texas' Tom Connally fears for "the dignity and solemnity of the Senate...
...Claybaugh asked the wrong question. To fight for the Constitution today is to find yourself called a Communist-witness Wallace, Pepper, Franklin D. Roosevelt, his wife and numerous others. But rather, the question is: Why, since 1787 when that Preamble was written, has our United States not achieved those ideals spoken of in the Constitution's Preamble? How could the late President Roosevelt honestly and correctly, a century and a half later, speak of a nation of which one-third was ill-housed, ill-clothed...