Word: trim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suddenly as a summer storm. "As a Catholic," said Premier Adone Zoli of the bishop's conviction, "I am of course saddened. But as Prime Minister I can only believe that justice must take its course." At week's end the Vatican itself seemed ready to trim its tone to the nation's mood. "The time has come," said Osservatore Romano, "to allow things to return to equilibrium...
...week's end House Speaker Sam Rayburn predicted a fight in the House (which last session voted a 4?rate for all first-class mail) to knock out the fifth cent. Since the House is not likely to trim the spending, the cut would make the deficit even greater...
...trim, 110-ft. U.S. yacht Valinda stood at anchor off Ecuador's Galápagos Islands in predawn darkness. The weather was balmy; the yacht's owner, Los Angeles Attorney William Rhodes Hervey Jr., 48, dozed on deck. Suddenly Hervey was roused by the chugging engines of two ancient fishing boats pulling alongside. Remembering a warning about seagoing thieves among the islands, he warned the boats to keep off, tried to kick one of them from Valinda's side...
Johnson's program did not include tax cuts, but Illinois' Paul Douglas, fresh from firsthand conversations with Chicago's unemployed, filled in the gap by hoppering a bill to trim personal income and excise taxes by $4.4 billion. Over in the House, Texas' Speaker Sam Rayburn, despite his own opposition to tax cuts, ordered lieutenants to get a tax-cut bill drafted in case the economy fails to pep up in early spring. And for all his confidence in ultimate prosperity, Richard Nixon put the Republicans within leaping distance of the tax-cut bandwagon. Said...
Honored. A wartime Navyman with a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University, handsome, whippet-trim '(5 ft. 10 in., 140 lbs.) Herb Hames, 35, helped close down Ottawa's wide-open gambling joints with stories that played up their owners' political connections. He flailed away at thimblerigging in La Salle County's tax assessments, flayed the city government for lax enforcement of liquor laws. Bucking opposition from tax-conscious merchants, Editor Hames also swung the paper behind such long-needed improvements as sewer and school construction. For three straight years after Editor Hames...