Word: pokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ernie was not being realistic. Neither Australia nor Canada wanted to join Britain in pursuing the will-o'-the-wisp of an imperial closed shop. Bevin took another poke at the rich old bogey of the U.S. "I know these Americans will be upset," he said, "but I've got to upset somebody. My own conviction is that she handicapped herself ... by failure to redistribute the Fort Knox gold ... to assist in increasing the purchasing power of the devastated areas of the world...
...Poke. The President had some happy explaining to do. In the eight months since he sent Congress a "tight, hardboiled" budget (TIME, Jan. 20), the whizzing U.S. economy had boosted anticipated Government revenues up about $4 billion to $41.7 billion. For paring expenditures, Politician Truman gave the Republican Congress scant credit. Congress, he said, had managed to trim his budget by $1.5 billion, but the actual saving was only $528 million (appropriations for Turkey and Greece, for flood control and other emergencies had cut it down). That was a direct political poke at Republican claims of having saved...
When he came to the surplus, it was the newsmen's turn to poke a hot political question at Harry Truman. What were the chances for tax reduction? The President would not say, right out, that there could be no tax cut. But he strongly implied that any effort to reduce taxes next year would get a heavy going over by him. Treasury Secretary John Snyder, patting his round, little private surplus, nodded approval as the President explained his tax policy: cut the debt by taxing heavily in prosperous times. Added Harry Truman: "The international situation has also made...
...Counter Poke. But Politician Truman would surely have another Republican tax bill on his desk in 1948. His budget review got a rough reception by Republicans. The surplus, said New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, was proof that "the country was robbed of a tax reduction by purely political votes." Notably lacking was any Democratic cheering over the tax outlook. Said one close friend of Politician Truman: "His neck is too far out for an election year. He's got guts, that's sure, but I'm sorry he said...
...little lady with the bright grey eyes had peculiar tastes and peculiar ways. She would roam through back-country towns in her black Hupmobile, stopping at every antique shop and every likely-looking old house to ask permission to poke about a spell. She cared not a jot for antique furniture; what she wanted were old portrait paintings, still-lifes on velvet, birth certificates with watercolor designs around the edges, rusty weathervanes and peeling figureheads...