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...indeed? asked the President's vastly heartened Opposition. Senator Burke promptly proclaimed that he would redraft his amendment to include Dean Smith's staggered retirement system and uniform State conventions. Texas' Tom Connally, another Presidential Plan antagonist, planned one without the stagger. Most significant converts were two Judiciary Committeemen, Kentucky's Logan and New Mexico's Hatch, who had been leaning reluctantly toward the President's Plan. Senator Hatch, who postponed private engagements in order to hear Dean Smith out, announced after the hearing that he was ready to go whole...
...terrible crash. My seat belt kept me in my seat. I didn't lose consciousness, but my leg and side hurt. I guess I was about the only one that wasn't knocked out." Passenger Robinson set off alone down the snow-spattered mountain, managed to stagger four miles to the Olive View Sanitarium despite a broken ankle. Inmates there had heard the impact and screams of the victims borne by the wind, had already given the alarm...
Since the mountain won't stagger over to Mohammed and since it seems essential that the Freshmen should receive some knowledge of hygiene, the current plan to have informal sessions in the Union addressed by men of national reputation seems to offer a satisfactory solution...
...doings of a Pavlov and others like him who prefer to work in supercilious obscurity are not calculated to stagger the Russian-in-the-street and confound the Capitalist world. In a nation of peasants which is so excited by the parachute that it is training millions to jump, men with spectacular ideas are popping up by thousands. The U. S. S. R. has a guild of inventors whose membership in the Moscow region alone is reported around 30,000. Down to the last man they are eager to show Joseph Stalin what they can do. What they lack...
...invalidating of this resolution would create a privileged class which in power and immunity would be unparalleled in human history. ... It would be a catastrophe which would stagger the imagination. It would not be a case of back to the Constitution. It would be a case of back to chaos. ... I hope this court will lay down in unequivocal language that actions in the control of currencies which are open to other nations shall not be denied the U. S. . . . . In acting as it did the Congress acted for the benefit of the country as a whole...