Word: sent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dwight Eisenhower's 146th veto message whirred through the White House Mimeograph machine one morning last week before Congress had even sent him the bill to be rejected: the $1.2 billion rivers and harbors appropriation, almost exactly the same old vote-catching "pork barrel" smashed by the 144th veto two weeks earlier. This time, Ike knew, Democrats were dead certain that they could muster the necessary two-thirds to override-and end-the remarkable string of unbeaten Eisenhower vetoes...
...week's end, Ezra Benson called in the press, read a letter he had sent to Mitchell. Its gist: "The proposed regulations . . . retain the concept of federal intervention and administrative control and regimentation that is contrary to the principles of this Administration and that is so repugnant to agriculture." Benson's remedy for the migrants: more study...
Answering a Chamber of Commerce appeal for a reward fund, hundreds sent in donations in quarters, half dollars, bills and personal checks, totaling within a few days more than $20,000. The usually pro-segregationist Arkansas Democrat praised the outpouring, boasted: "That was the true Little Rock, rising out of a mist of half-lights and distortions emanating from our high school troubles to assert the principles that are the inheritance and pride of our people." In the cold loneliness of a man without a cause, even Governor Orval Faubus was moved to call the bombings "sickening and deplorable...
...their beefsteaks cut thick and their suits cut on Savile Row lines, will riot over an increase in the cost of living-but not over the fall of an elected government. Cynical corruption wrecked the middle-class Radicals' one chance in power (1916-30), and the disgusted army sent General Jose Uriburu, astride a white charger and backed by 10,000 troops, to take over the presidential residence, the Casa Rosada. The brass has never been out of politics since...
...climactic aria belonged to Mamma Callas, who works at the Manhattan jewelry shop of Mamma Gabor. Last week she recalled with gratitude how Meneghini once sent her $40, while Maria sent her nothing. Said Evangelia of her daughter: "Meneghini was a father and a mother to Maria. Now she no longer needs him. But Maria will never be happy; my soul says it. Women like Maria can never know real love...