Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anyone Deny? Increased taxes, Douglas said emphatically, were not the answer; a tax boost now, when the nation was in a mild slump, might be just the kind of shock that would put the present economy flat on its back. "It is very foolish for us to act on the basis of conditions of five or six months ago," said Douglas...
...letter, Harry Truman replied: "I am much in the same frame of mind you are . . . The compromisers got nowhere as I was sure they wouldn't, and they never had any consideration for me." This sounded like a slap at Speaker Sam Rayburn, who tried to put over the compromise. Press Secretary Charles Ross hastily explained that there had been a double misprint. The letter should have read: "The compromises got nowhere . . . and they never had any consideration from...
...Signed the emergency joint resolution making funds available to pay some 15,000 federal employees (including himself) until the end of the fiscal year. In a scorching message, he blasted a clause in it which had delayed his signature. The clause, put in at the insistence of California's Senator Sheridan Downey, friend of the big West Coast landholders, denied Reclamation Commissioner Mike Straus and California's Regional Director Richard Boke their...
...Weiskopf should win both the 100 and the 220 for the Yardlings. Ace Yale hurdler Skip Hill will give Charlie Durakis, Jim McLaughlin, and Bill Gelck plenty of competition. Frank Efinger, who took third in 4:19 behind Gil Dodds in the BAA mile last year, is slated to put a dont in the Crimson's near perfect middle distance and mile record although Dave Cairns, Ron Berman, Dave Gregory and company will give the Yale star a run for his money...
...might be appropriate to mention here a few of Yale's recent times and distances that the Crimson can only gape at. In the Heps, Fuchs put the shot 55 feet, 3/4 inches, Wade ran the mile in 4:18.7, Appel pole vaulted 13 feet, 5 inches, and the mile relay team finished...