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"Damnable!" cried the outraged Tennessean. Mr. Wallace hastily withdrew the remark. But the damage was done. An offended Senate crushed Mr. Wallace's ruling (46 to 17), then pressed on to pass the bill along McKellar lines. TVA's hopes rested on the House.
On this bloody, stubborn Italian front, the biggest continuing battlefield for U.S. and British soldiers, the immediate responsibility for the Allied command rested with slim, trim, incisive General Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander. Ultimate responsibility rested with another soldier whom the world knew more as a military name than a personality...
On his desk, in the first day of his 63rd year, rested a mountain of work on domestic issues. This was an old mountain, eroded, weathered, chipped off, but apparently permanent, as none of the home front problems ever seems to get settled. Most important: how much shall the people...
P Is for Picayune. The reporters rested momentarily. Up popped the New York Herald Tribune's able Washington bureau chief, Bert Andrews, with the obvious question: "Does all that add up to a fourth-term declaration?" When the laughter died down the President replied (authorizing only this much of...
It all started in Queens, where, doctors believe, some feckless fub with a ring-wormy scalp rested his head on the back of a public seat. He thereby infected many other little Queens boys who lolled back in the same seat. They infected more chairs, more little boys. Then some...