Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nine Democrats. To Knowland's chagrin, Majority Leader Johnson had scooped up such Democratic moderates as Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, Ohio's Frank Lausche, Rhode Island's John Pastore, Washington's "Scoop" Jackson and Warren Magnuson, such Republicans as Maine's Margaret Chase Smith, Indiana's Homer Capehart, and West Virginia's Chappie Revercomb...
...SMITH...
...bill) insisted on adding the kiss of death, i.e., a rider (the Powell amendment of last session) withholding federal funds from segregated schools, thereby gave Northern Congressmen an opportunity to make a liberal record by backing him. When all others had finished their say, Virginia's wily Howard Smith moved to strike the bill's enacting clause. Democrat Smith's motion carried by a vote of 208 (111 Republicans, 97 Democrats) to 203 (77 Republicans, 126 Democrats), with such Administration bellwethers as Indiana's Charles Halleck and Illinois' Leslie Arends voting to kill the bill...
...really killed it? Majority Leader John McCormack took pains to point out that 57% of the Democrats had backed the measure. Republicans said the ax came from Howard Smith and Southern Democrats. The White House professed "great disappointment that the House did not see its way clear to pass a measure to meet this critical shortage of schools." The only one who said nothing was Marion Folsom. He, apparently, had said too much before the voting began...
...Concrete. Ever since the mid-1930s a few big, weather-wise companies have had prophets for profit on their staffs. As early as 1937, San Francisco's Pacific Gas & Electric hired Meteorologist Charles Pennypacker Smith to forecast temperatures in northern California, where a 1° drop can change gas demand by 40 million cu. ft. But the real boom in private weathermen came after World War II, when a flood of new meteorologists and new techniques from the armed forces became available to industry. Now, at fees ranging from $25 for a short-range forecast...