Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time, Album officials uttered their third semestrial plea for all delinquent members of the Classes of 1947 and 1948 to have their formal photographs taken (1) at Lowell House today, or (2) at the Sargent Studio in Boston; or else to send a suitable print already in hand to the Album offices at 14 Plympton Street...
Cold with rage, Foreign Affairs Chairman Charles Eaton argued back. "We might just as well face the fact that Russia proposes to conquer the world by infiltration, by revolution or by force of arms. . . . If we don't send this aid the price will be much more than this." The committeemen engaged in six hours of futile wrangling before they sent the bill to the House...
Attendance dwindled as Congressmen gossiped in the cloakrooms, began checking out for the weekend. Democrats slyly turned over their speaking time to Republicans, who had to send out search parties for reinforcements. But Majority Leader Charlie Halleck was adamant: "If the Democrats want to rubber-stamp this program, they can do it. We want this program to be debated and threshed out before the votes are taken...
...C.G.T.'s Benoît Frachon tried a last-ditch expedient. He called on one-eyed President Vincent Auriol at Elysée Palace and asked him to send Schuman's strike bill back to the Assembly for a second reading. The President of the Republic has that right, but Auriol refused. Next day Frachon telephoned Maurice Thorez, secretary of the French Communist Party, just back from Moscow. Said Frachon to Thorez: "I cannot hold much longer. I warn you, the situation is getting out of control...
This chain letter, started to bring happiness to tired college men, costs no money. Simply send a copy to five males. Then bundle up your wife and send her to the fellow who heads the list...