Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Missouri's Republican Dewey Short was not impressed. "The ones who pussyfooted, sidestepped, straddled, carried water on both shoulders and compromised were left at home," he roared. "You still have a majority in both houses of Congress who voted to override the President's veto...
Incidentally, Dewey Short was not against labor, he wanted it known. He had been a worker since he was eight years old. He had sold papers, shined shoes, handled cakes of ice "bigger than I was-they slide," he declaimed. "I know what it is to look at the south end of a mule going north down a corn row all day long...
...Short had nothing on another Missourian in the field of the corn-fed anecdote. Homespun Democrat George Christopher wanted the House to know that he had been farming since he was old enough and he was for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. Said Christopher proudly, turning Short's mule around: "I invite you all to look at another Missourian who has looked for long hours at the north end of that southbound mule...
...rest of the lineup, which takes a new shape almost every game, will probably find Ralph Robinson in left field, batting second, Bob Thompson in right field, batting seventh after Hickey, Charlie Cabot at short, batting ninth, and either Al Switzer or Tim Wise at first base, batting eighth...
Henry Young's leg infection will keep him out of today's encounter, but Coach Samborski would not commit himself as to whether he or Cabot would be at short even if he were sound. Young's injury over the past week has given Cabot a second chance to try for a regular's role, and he has looked more than adequate in the attempt...