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Massachusetts' Republican Henry Cabot Lodge, fed up with the dillydallying of the Midwest isolationists in his own party, protested: "It is no time for a group of serious and responsible men such as we are to be talking about a long ten-day Easter vacation." Wherry piously retorted: no one is talking about a vacation. But, as Florida's Democrat Spessard Holland pointed out, the only members who needed to be in the chamber were those who were going to make speeches on the subject before the Senate. Nobody expected any new ideas from them, nobody expected...
...Fitzgeralds went to Paris in 1925, and for famous Author Fitzgerald it was "1000 parties and no work." He went on ten-day bats and came to in places as far away as Brussels, wondering how he got there. But that spring he had published The Great Gatsby, a beautifully written, technically near-perfect story about the Long Island rich and a young bootlegger's pathetic belief that money could buy respect and happiness. This time, Fitzgerald got the critical praise he hungered after. Famed Novelist Edith Wharton invited him to call. Drunk, and with his inferiority complex working...
...Canceled the Army's ten-day Christmas furlough for soldiers in training camps. Only Christmas and New Year's will be considered holidays...
Long Haul. The pipeline, which brings Aramco's oil closer to Western European markets, saves a fleet of 65 tankers by eliminating the ten-day, 3,500-mile haul around the Arabian Peninsula (see map). For its builder, Burt E. Hull, 66, a bluff, weatherbeaten Texan, who has been building pipelines for 40 years, it was the biggest job since he built the wartime Big and Little Inch pipelines. As president of Trans-Arabian Pipe Line Co., Hull now bosses the Arabian line for the four giant U.S. oil companies which financed it-Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Standard...
While Curt Simmons sped to Shibe Park with a special ten-day pass, approved by the Department of Defense, the general continued, "it is gratifying to be able to take this course of action to encourage the ball team during the World Series...