Word: two
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Majority Leader Lucas, who knew when he was licked, agreed to a vote on the Taft substitute and saw it pass by 49-44. Utah's stolid, scholarly Elbert Thomas, noting sadly that only the first two lines of his bill were left when Taft got through, disowned the whole business. At his suggestion the bill was renamed the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1949, but, as old Bill Green had indicated, it would be known familiarly as the Taft bill...
...crippling amendment after another. Congressman Ed Rees, a Kansas lawyer-farmer, proposed to kill all mention of low-rent housing. His amendment almost got through. A standing vote on Rees's amendment went down by one vote and Rees demanded a teller count, taken by queuing up in two groups-yes or no-and marching past the counters. Rees won then by 168-165. But on a final roll-call vote, Administration forces were able to beat Rees by a bare 209-204 vote. All through these nervous moments, Speaker Sam Rayburn and Majority Leader John McCormack prowled...
...Two Blind Mice...
...Two of the judges resigned in violent disagreement with the choice...
...Fired three professors - two for being Communists...