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...Republican reaction was prompt. Said New York's Senator Irving Ives,who had often taken labor's part in debate and committee room: "[The veto message] is the worst possible interpretation of the provisions of the bill, based on the assumption of the worst possible administration of the act." While the bill's opponents in the Senate filibustered desperately to delay the vote (see The Congress), Senator Robert Taft went on the air half an hour after Harry Truman finished his broadcast and took up Harry Truman's speech...
...toast, researches his weekly radiorations on forgotten U.S. heroes, sends off memos (signed "R.R. McC.") down his chain of command, and summons department heads to the sanctum. They have learned that it is well to lay a problem crisply on the line, get his decision, which is almost invariably prompt, and get out fast...
...hallway were 103 coffins, awaiting interment. This week the American Legion took its hat in hand and went around to seek a favor. It asked the union to call off its pickets on Memorial Day, to permit services in honor of the war dead. It got no prompt answer, waited...
...well enough to touch off 20 minutes of cheers. Pierino took seven neat brisk bows. Then he forgot his dignity and gamboled happily up & down the stage. Backstage a reporter asked him: "What do you feel when conducting Beethoven's Fifth Symphony"?" Pierino's prompt answer was at once profound and naive: "Mi sento bene" (I feel fine...
Veterans facing immediate financial problems were able to find prompt aid here in Cambridge through an emergency channel set up by the University chapter of the American Veterans Committee, as AVC officials reported that their efforts to alleviate the situation had been in most cases successful...