Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done, the critics answered, burly Joe Ryan settled back into his pleasant routine: a rubdown at the New York Athletic Club, a swing along the docks to chat with his boys, the feel in his pocket of a horse-choking roll of green backs, careful attention to his fingernails and his bright ties-and above all vast quantities of food to nourish the Ryan paunch. Says contented Joe Ryan: "I like good food of all kinds, and I think my longshoremen want me to have...
...know they are loafers because no business house would allow them to work in such fantastic outfits. If you are a serviceman with a few dollars in your pocket, you also know that some of them are ready to hoist you into an alley and roll...
Last week, a full day before the next message went up, Jimmy Byrnes phoned rangy John McCormack, Majority Leader, told him to get set for a veto of the Commodity Credit Corp. bill, which prohibited the use of subsidies to roll back food prices. Immediately the House strategists conferred, under the prism-hung chandelier in Speaker Sam Rayburn's ornate office. Telegrams were hurried off to more than 50 absentees, mostly in the big cities along the Atlantic seaboard. Members of the House Whip organization streamed in, got a broad sketch of the veto message, were told...
...reason was that the Congress was sick to its innards of the Administration technique of give-us-billions-and-we'll fix-everything-up. The members felt: 1) that no conceivable number of billions could really roll back prices ; 2 ) what was needed was management, not money. The British subsidy success they understood; Britain imports 35% of its food, and controls can easily be applied from the docks to the stores. The job is as nothing compared to payments to 6,000,000 U.S. farmers...
With these things in mind, the Congress killed the embryo "rollback" cold. The House, voting on a bill to extend the life of Commodity Credit Corp. (which would pay the subsidies), tacked on so many crippling amendments that any Administration official attempting to roll back prices could probably be tried, convicted and hanged...