Word: pork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breakfast. Typical breakfast -fruit-oranges, bananas, local berries, other fruit in season. Cereal-oatmeal, or cold dry, according to season. Heavy cream. Meat, fish, eggs-corned beef hash with eggs; fresh fried blackfish with salt pork; ham or bacon with eggs; creamed chicken (left over) on toast, etc. Honey or marmalade on toast made over open fire...
...House was in no hurry at all to take up the Senate-passed bill to ladle out $1 billion in easy-term loans for local public works. Nor was there any audible clamor for overriding the President's rivers and harbors pork-barrel veto or for drawing up any new public-works programs...
...organization called the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, composed of state and city officials, port authority members, engineering company executives, etc., is to the pork barrel what Boston is to baked beans. Last week doughty Budget Director Maurice H. Stans. who doesn't care beans about pork-barrel politics, went before an N.R.H.C. conference in Washington to explain why there just isn't enough money for all the rivers and harbors projects that the organization urges on Congress. In fiscal 1959. said Stans, the Federal Government faces a deficit of $8 to $10 billion. True enough. President Eisenhower...
Along with revived energy, the President has suddenly come to feel at home with his big and little political powers. Never before has he used his veto weapon with such telling effect as in his refusal to sign the recent whole-hog rivers and harbors pork barrel (TIME, April 28) and the Democratic attempt at freezing high farm supports at their present level. Those vetoes told the Congress, which had long since come to the point of discounting presidential influence, that Ike means business. For the first time G.O.P. congressional leaders are able to count on partisan coordination-instead...
...lard-heavy rivers-and-harbors authorization. He soon counted too many Republican noes. "I don't believe in idle gestures," said he, and gracefully helped the farm bill along to an agriculture committee that will probably let it mildew for the rest of the session. The pork-barrel bill went to the Public Works Committee for a word-for-word review that might skim off the lard that Ike rejected...