Word: spender
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the House has cut to the bone. Last year Cannon propelled a resolution through his committee that charged the Senate with profligacy, noting that in the past ten years Senators had restored $22 billion previously slashed by the House. Virginia's Democratic Senator Willis Robertson, no great spender himself, called the resolution "the most insulting document that one body has ever sent to another." As he recalls that uproar, Clarence Cannon's face still fractures itself in a smile. He insists that the Senate has become much more responsible because of his taunts. "Why," he chuckles...
Triple-Threat Spender. After 250-lb. Kissin' Jim returned for a second term in 1955, he made his first regime seem almost austere. During his final year in office, the food-and-drink expenses for parties aboard the two yachts came to $54,260. A sort of triple-threat spender-land, sea and air-Folsom accumulated a gubernatorial squadron of seven airplanes. Sometimes when he was putting on a really big bash, like taking friends to an out-of-state football game, he found his air force inadequate, commandeered Air National Guard planes and pilots. In 1958 he treated...
...Teddy to be incredibly evil) with a knowledge of Teddy's "folder" and "... he (the tutor) certainly wishes it could be made public." Great. That's justice all right. "Ted was one of the boys," we are told. Presumably of the wrong kind of boys, however. A clubbie, a spender of his father's money--if not a non-snob, I suppose, then by implication a snob. Horrible. An exhaustive survey, it seems, reports that no members of the Gov. Department remember him. Well, how many faculty members remember Lodge (in terms of academic achievement)? Anyway, who cares whether...
Byrd has been at odds with every subsequent President. He considered Harry Truman just another big spender. Irritated by Byrd's opposition, Truman made his famed offhand remark: There were, he told a White House visitor, "too many Byrds in Congress." Predictably, Byrd liked Ike-but the pair came to a parting of the political ways when Eisenhower ran up that whopping $12.4 billion budget deficit in 1959. "I didn't like that thing about sending those troops down to Arkansas either," recalls Byrd. Byrd has inflamed the segregation issue in Virginia with his demand for massive resistance...
...that enduring symbol of bumbling bureaucracy, Colonel Blimp; an Order of the British Empire for New Zealand Runner Peter Snell, world record holder in the mile, half-mile, 1,000-yd. and 500-meter races; Commanders of the Order of the British Empire for Novelist Elspeth Huxley, Poet Stephen Spender, Actor Emlyn Williams...