Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is some nucleus of skill, some group of people whose technical abilities can be expanded with help from the outside." The U.S. would work with these people. If successful, the program would also "create the conditions under which capital may flow into those countries. [The President] did not say this was to be governmental capital...
Into the Opposition. Some Congressmen were quick to say they would not buy labor's dream. Louisiana Democrat Allen J. Ellender said that the President's bill would leave the nation defenseless against John L. Lewis. Faithful old New Dealer Elbert D. Thomas, chairman of the Senate labor committee, would try to hustle the bill on to the floor but there it would run into a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats. There were signs that the Administration itself, having made a down payment on its debt to labor, wouldn't mind too much...
...Vandenberg once remarked that "I never know whether Dr. Marshall is praying for me or at me." Senators, who have their moments of ringing and hollow oratory, came to find Peter Marshall's prayers plain and pertinent. Once he prayed: "When we do not know what to say, keep us quiet." Another time he said: "Save us from the sin of worrying, lest stomach ulcers be the badge of our lack of faith...
Though Representative Dondero didn't say so, there was an even simpler way than reading newspapers and gabbing to avoid listening to speeches in the House, That was to stay away. Only about 40 of the 435 Congressmen were on hand when Dondero spoke...
Cornered, Supreme Court Justice Thomas A. Aurelio conceded that he had been there: "I don't care to say more." Justice Aurelio had good reason. In 1943, the District Attorney's office had tapped a conversation on Costello's private wire the morning after Aurelio's nomination by the Democrats. It went like this...