Word: pocketbooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francisco Examiner leaped to O'Rourke's defense. State officials hinted quietly that without such a qualified man to head the county health unit, they would have to cut off its $39,000 a year in state aid. In the face of public indignation and pocketbook pressure, the supervisors reversed themselves. Dr. O'Rourke went back to work...
...House is sensitive about its pocketbook prerogative, and for a while last week the debate was hot and heavy. Texan Wright Patman, floor manager for the bill, hit at the opposition's weak spot: a nay vote would mean a decision against helping the economically depressed. "If you vote against it," he warned, "there will be no depressed areas bill this session." In vain, Republican Leader Charles Halleck argued that the bill could always be sent back to conference for change in its financing method. Cried he: "I do not think the gentleman should be inclined to scare people...
...appetite-and pocketbook-had grown large. He cast an envious eye on a big bunch of Russells, then housed cozily in a fine old Great Falls, Mont., saloon called The Mint. The people of Montana belatedly tried to raise the money to outbid Carter and keep the artist's work in the state he adopted, but Carter won. He hung his acquisitions in his club, at the newspaper, in the Fort Worth library, the airport terminal. His will stipulated that they should eventually have their own museum...
...Minister Ludwig Erhard knocked these hopeful expectations flatter than a Flensburg flounder. His big black cigar jutting out of his pink-cheeked face, Erhard formally handed U.S. Ambassador Walter Dowling a seven-page financial aid plan that called for little or no real contributions from Germany's overstuffed pocketbook...
...snapped. "You can talk to me-but don't touch me." Next to brave the mob were James and Daisey Gabrielle with their daughter Yolanda, 6. Gabrielle, a worker in the New Orleans sewerage and water commission, guided Yolanda to safety while Daisey Gabrielle, swinging a big pocketbook, cleared a path through the crowd. "No mob's going to tell me what to do," said she. "If you give in to this mob, you have to give in to all of them...