Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...domestic affairs, he ran the tax-reduction bill through the House; held up U.M.T.; pushed and prodded for a larger Air Force; had a hand in all Republican legislation such as the Taft-Hartley act. He has made it clear to Senators Vandenberg and Taft that they must stay on their own side of the Hill, that he is running the House. He stepped boldly into the national limelight recently to intercede in the coal strike...
...argument over whether public-opinion polls are good or bad for a democracy has become somewhat academic -they are obviously here to stay. They can find out what the people, who rule a democracy, think and want. But a democracy also needs leadership by men who must frequently tell the people why a popular notion-no matter how widely held-can be wrong...
Connecticut has now ruled that on knock downs a boxer must stay down for a count of eight. Illinois recently announced that all boxers must take a rigid medical exam (including skull X ray) once a month and before each fight. (Jackie Darthard, it turned out, had complained of "an awful headache" after a fight last fall.) Wisconsin, too, had tightened its rules...
...Jubilee stay-at-homes can still get in a little dancing tonight at 8:30 o'clock, when the Wesley Foundation of the Harvard-Epworth Methodist Church holds its May Day Dance. The church is on Massachusetts Avenue at the first stop-light north of the Square...
...invitations to his hotel-warming. In planes, automobiles and 14 private railroad cars they trooped in-Chase National Bank Chairman Winthrop Aldrich, Bing Crosby, Elsa Maxwell, Attorney General Tom Clark, the Duke & Duchess of Windsor (who arrived with 14 pieces of luggage to get them through their three-day stay), many another practitioner of the arts, professions and leisure-by-the-numbers...