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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unavailing was the argument of the Senate economizers that there was plenty of logic in the measure: only the department involved could know enough about itself to know where it could economize. A majority present (49 to 28) voted for the economy resolution. But because a two-thirds majority is necessary to suspend the rules (writing legislation into an appropriation bill is against the rules), the resolution died...
Into the applause stepped big (225 pounds), bustling John Saylor, World War II Navy officer. He was the candidate of 86-year-old G.O.P. Boss Joe Grundy. "Your ancestors and mine established a new idea of government," said Saylor. "That new idea of government lasted 175 years-until the present Administration in Washington, which came out for the Socialist welfare state...
Bevin & Cripps would argue that Britain's ultimate aim, like America's, was a competitive, freer-trading world outside what Bevin calls "the ruble area." But they would also defend Britain's present bilateral trade deals with other countries (e.g., Argentina) as an unavoidable expedient so long as the dollar shortage lasts. They would have a fairly shrewd notion of the American climate of opinion, of what they might ask and expect to receive...
Koreans knew their leader had the present and the past in mind. In 1949 Korea is menaced by Communist aggression. In 1592 Korea was menaced by Japanese aggression. Then, their valorous Admiral Yisunsin built the world's first armor-clad ships. Shaped like turtles, these craft rammed and destroyed an invasion armada under Japan's Hideyoshi...
Wellesley Wellington Vandeveer, onetime member of the Petroleum Administration for War and present delegate to the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council, was a cofounder of Allied Oil Co. 24 years ago. He and Partner Floyd Roy Newman started with $30,000 capital, most of which was borrowed. They fought off slashing competition, plowed back their profits and finally built the company into a $50 million-a-year business. Last year they sold out to Ashland Oil & Refining Co. for $12 million worth of the larger company's stock...