Word: rider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grown and married, he got his wish. He made several tours with Ringling Bros., one with his wife and the late cartoonist Clare Briggs. (Even now, when the circus comes to Bridgeport, the Websters dress up and ride in the parade.) Ethel Webster became a good enough bareback rider to receive, and reluctantly turn down, a professional offer. She is also pretty certainly the only non-professional woman ever to ride down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on the nape of an elephant (on the occasion of Mrs. Hearst's Milk Fund Drive...
...Congress, trying to knock off three minor New Dealers in one of its rows with Franklin Roosevelt, had tacked a rider onto an appropriations bill denying salaries to Robert Morss Lovett, Government Secretary of the Virgin Islands, and FCC employes Goodwin B. Watson and William E. Dodd Jr. The excuse: the Dies Com mittee said the three were "radicals." All three continued working for awhile, then filed suits for back salary...
...bitter pill in Harry Truman's drink was a rider which ordered the return of United States Employment Service to state control within 30 days. It pointedly ignored the President's "urgent" recommendation that the control of USES be retained by the Federal Government "at least until . . . June 30, 1947" and that its appropriation be increased by $10 million...
Lean, grey Majority Leader John W. McCormack led Administration supporters in an eight-hour floor battle to knock out the rider. When it was over, Republicans and Southern Democrats gave their answer, approved it 162-10-101. The vote was the heaviest ever cast against a proposal by Harry Truman...
...President Truman, the Congress and the Department of the Interior. They wanted to clear, restore and officially designate a six-mile section of the Cataloochee as the "Asbury Trail," to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth, Aug. 20, 1745 of American Methodism's most famed circuit rider...