Word: swingeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Swing to Rome...
...Zagri got down to more serious work when the committee began its voting. In the first critical vote, a ten-man "swing" group of Democrats rejected a union-made plan to bury the bill in subcommittee. Less than an hour later, one of Zagri's ever-busy committee leaks supplied him with a tally on each member's vote. That same day he telephoned union leaders in each swing man's home district, urged protests against the Congressman's "betrayal" of labor. Commanding one A.F.L.-C.I.O. Steelworker official to put the heat on a New Jersey...
This campaign of intimidation ran for only a few days before Arizona's Stewart Udall, Democratic leader of the swing group, told Zagri off. "You've got a nerve to go calling my state and telling people I'm voting wrong," he snapped. Zagri brazened it out: ''I'm going to get you in line." Udall exploded as never before in Congress, raked Zagri over until the lobbyist obsequiously agreed that he had voted right. Another Congressman was treated to anonymous threats ("We're going to fix you") on his home and office...
...Colorado's jagged San Juan Mountains, Ranger Steve Yurich, 34, flew off in a Cessna for a quick fire-spotting swing around his Piedra district, switched to a pickup truck to check the camp sites and flag down a logging truck, then saddled up his horse, "Buck," to inspect the grassy uplands where ranchers will graze 2,800 head of cattle and 7,000 sheep this summer under.permit from the Forest Service...
...with Ikemen Tom Dewey and Herbert Brownell. Fresh from Chicago convention headquarters, Nixon swung aboard the Warren train at Denver, began spreading the word of Eisenhower's growing strength, got some Californians to let Warren know that they would stick with him only in the first ballot, then swing to Ike. The threatened rebellion never came off, because Eisenhower got the nomination on the first ballot. But Earl Warren, bitterly disappointed, according to one friend, "to his dying day will believe that Nixon sold...