Word: recordation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years it has been standard congressional practice to presume a quorum until someone specifically raised the question and proved otherwise (as no one did in the Christoffel case). Murphy's decision, said Jackson, challenged the validity of thousands of congressional bills which have been passed without a record vote-hence without actual proof that a quorum was on hand...
...Menace For the first time in three years the U.S. Treasury had to get out the red ink. It was a lusty $1,811,440,047.68 in the hole for fiscal 1949. The Government had spent $40,057,107,857.79-a peacetime record-while taking in only $38,245,667,810.11. The deficit was more than three times as much as Harry Truman forecast in his January budget message...
...point he erred. He denied that, after Chambers' first charges against him, John Foster Dulles had asked him to resign as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Dulles came later to the stand to correct Hiss's recollection. With his memory bolstered by a written record of the conversation, Dulles, chairman of the trustees of the endowment, swore that he had told Hiss he thought he should resign...
Conversation Piece. Things might have gone along that way indefinitely if a nosy young vice squad sergeant named Charles Stoker hadn't got interested in Brenda's affairs. A tap was installed on Brenda's line and Stoker began to record some lively conversations. One was by another sergeant on the vice squad named Elmer Jackson, who called the city hall from Brenda's atelier. Another time Sergeant Jackson called to apologize to Brenda for a sheriffs' raid. Stoker reported his wiretap findings to a confidential aide of Chief of Police C. B. Horrall, then...
...fortnight ago, he got back to winning form. In the $50,000-added Brooklyn Handicap at Aqueduct, the six-year-old, clubfooted chocolate stallion looked good as new as he won over Vulcan's Forge in 2:02 4/5, only three-fifths of a second off. the stake record for a mile and a quarter. quarter...