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...word water. "I think," said Herbert, "the Hon. Member for Loughborough proposes to spell it 'uoorter.' Some cockneys leave out the T and call it 'wa'er.' Americans say 'watter,' but how do the Scotsmen say it?" Glasgow's John Rankin volunteered: "We pronounce it whuskey...
...Harvard's chapter of the American Veteran's Committee has resolved to fight the Rankin Veteran's Pension Bill in every way possible," Publicity Chairman Roy F. Gootenberg '49 announced last night...
...Rankin's bill, which is now in the House Rules Committee, would provide $90 per month to unemployed war veterans at the age of 65. The cost of the bill has been estimated at $198 billion, over nine times the projected cost of the Marshall Plan...
Extraordinary Privilege. While the House sweated, the Senate, which would probably have to take final responsibility for extracting Rankin's stinger, was in almost as waspish a mood last week. After listening to A.F.L.'s 75-year-old President Bill Green, as he doggedly resisted anything but outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley Law, Ohio's Robert Taft finally exploded in exasperation: "Mr. Green, I don't want to make a speech. But it seems to me you are claiming the most extraordinary privilege any organization ever claimed in the United States...
...Took notice of the Rankin pension grab (see The Congress) with a little speech to officials of the Veterans of Foreign Wars: "I hope it will be possible for you to help me to help the veterans of this country understand that this United States is theirs . . . and there are certain limits to which its financial welfare cannot be stretched...