Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the Red. Coolidge, too, had saved money in the White House. But in the final year of the Hoover Administration, Congress made all governmental salaries, including the President's, taxable. By 1944 taxes took more than half of the President's salary. In his twelve years in the White House, Franklin Roosevelt never got out of the red, but he had his own and his mother's fortune to fall back...
Michigan's Republican Clare Hoffman took some personal fury to the floor. He waved a copy of the Kalamazoo Gazette, which quoted Michigan's Democratic John Lesinski as saying that "Hoffman is a pimp of Joe Stalin." Hoffman complained for 40 minutes before Lesinski got a word...
...WHRV staff managed to stand up under the strain because different disc jockeys took turns spinning the records...
Only the "long life" needles couldn't take it. "It took four or five needles to play all the records," the technicians noted, "but we had two turntables and changed the needles...
...seemed to have a definite edge all the way. Most of the time the puck was in Northeastern territory, and only in the second period, when the Crimson seemed to have a permanent lease on the penalty box. In the third stanza, the varsity's edge became obvious. They took some forty shots to Northeastern's ten and out-skated them as well...