Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Human Roadblock? Next day Attorney General William P. Rogers called a news conference to explain the legal basis for the agreement as he saw it. The agreement rests, he said, upon his own constitutional interpretation that, given disability, only the powers of the presidency and not the office of the presidency devolve upon the Vice President. Even so, said Rogers, the situation would be much clearer with a constitutional amendment that would 1) require the Vice President to get majority approval from the Cabinet, i.e., from the President's own personal appointees, before declaring the President disabled...
...F.D.R. heard of the young man who had just been elected on the odd-in conservative Texas -platform of support for Roosevelt's plan to pack the Supreme Court. He called Lyndon Johnson aboard his yacht, liked the cut of his jib. When Johnson arrived in Washington, F.D.R. saw to it that he was placed on the powerful House Naval Affairs Committee. Says Johnson of Franklin Roosevelt: "He was like a daddy...
With his union's prestige, and his own, committed to the Kohler strike, Walter Reuther saw to it that for two years U.A.W. supported some 2,000 strikers, providing them with rent, food and medical care, plus $25 a week "jingling money." But in 1956 U.A.W. had to give that up as too costly (to date, U.A.W. has poured in a fantastic $10 million), urged strikers to take new jobs. To find work, many of them had to move to other cities. Only 200 strikers are still drawing U.A.W. benefits...
Explaining that the code word for the plot was "the building," Serraj produced copies of three cables. The first, addressed by Ibrahim to Umm Emir Khalid, the name of his royal daughter in Riyadh, said: "We arrived safely. We saw the building and completed definite agreement. Send 200 immediately. Am waiting in Damascus at Hotel Bilat Rashid for your prompt answer. Your father Assad Ibrahim." The second said: "Building in perfect condition, but he wants second half of money before transferring building as planned. Necessary repairs will be made after arrival of your remittance. Assad Ibrahim." Serraj handed around photostats...
...jottings in no way coordinated or assembled and never intended for publication in such schematic form or under such a title. Stripping the notes of Elisabeth's gratuitously added chapter headings and subtitles, he lists them as they were written, along with thousands of other jottings that Elisabeth saw fit to omit because they did not suit her distorting purpose...