Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hear No Evil. In Topeka, Kans., when Federal District Judge Arthur Stanley told a witness to "speak up," a juror broke in to say: "It doesn't matter, your honor; I wasn't listening anyhow...
They obviously voted for people that I would class among the spenders, and that is what I say is going to be the real trouble. -Dwight Eisenhower...
Once again, the President passed up a chance to point to specific areas where he thought welfare-state spending might be trimmed back. He did say that a lot of money might be saved in national defense by eliminating "duplications" and by seeing to it that missiles and other new weapons systems "displace" older systems, not just "supplement" them. But when asked to name other good places to save money, the President lamely replied that he saw "no reason why we should spare any place, because I think every place we are spending too much money...
...YORK TIMES: THE right-wing "Old Guard" of the Republican party has, it is good to say, now dwindled almost to nothingness...
...say much about his biggest headache: civil rights. Already Illinois' liberal Democrat Paul Douglas and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey had teamed up with Republican Liberals Jacob Javits of New York and Cliff Case of New Jersey to poll all senatorial candidates on a plan to attack Rule 22, the South's license to stop all civil-rights legislation by filibuster. Douglas & Co. could count 41 votes for abolition of Rule 22 as the first order of Senate business, figured they were well within sight of a thunderous victory that would curl the hair of aging Dixiecrats...