Word: rep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Mason Brown, of the Kentucky and Crities' Circle Mason Browns, asked a Harvard student a few years back what his contemporaries thought of a currently popular professor. "Well," replied the student after due deliberation, "he has a rep as being amusing but a terrific ladies' club lecturer...
This week Congress can speak. It can take away some of the power of one of America's greatest demoralizers. Rep. Thomas H. Eliot has had the courage to oppose Dies' latest request. If only in respect to what we're fighting for, his stand should be espoused by his colleagues...
WASHINGTON-Rep. Hamilton Fish, R., N. Y., today denounced Federal Prosecutor William P. Maloney as a "Liar" during a heated exchange at the District Court trial of George Sylvester Viereck. American citizen registered as a Nazi propagandist. During the fiare-up, Fish said he had no connection with the defendant knew him only as an American citizen, and that "his acquaintance with me was the same as with President Roosevelt...
...Rep. Robert Ramspeck, D. Ga., ranking majority member of the House Labor Committee, was assigned to draft the measure. He said it would "prevent strikes in defense industries unless the employer wants to lose his plant or the worker wants to surrender his rights...
...Middlewestern delegation to Harvard is composed of a queer lot. They are notorious for their adoption of Eastern manners, mores, and accents, and for their desertion of the rough, rude, vigorous, semi-savage tradition of their native central plains. And for 357 days in the year, their rep is well deserved. The sons of the Middle Border eschew the "r"s and the multi-colored clothing with which they have been born and bred and lean toward tweeds and martinis...