Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election rally for Henry Wallace, where the party line was pushed, but not too obviously. In fact, the National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, which sponsored the conference, had also espoused Wallace's candidacy. Dr. Harlow Shapley, Harvard astronomer and chairman of N.C.A.S.P., a veteran advocate of party-line causes, was the conference chairman. Quietly working around him was the same hard core of trained Communists, the same muddle of the earnest and the inexperienced. The list of sponsors included such familiar leftist names as Playwright Arthur (Death of a Salesman) Miller, Novelist Norman (The Naked...
With the air of a man who is sure of his own strength, Mississippi's wily old demagogue John E. Rankin rolled his stupendous veterans' pork barrel onto the floor of the House, and defied the quaking Congressmen to throw it out. What old John wanted was $90 monthly at 65 for every veteran, whether he needed it or not. The cost would add up to something like $125 billion over the next 50 years. But determined John Rankin had posed his colleagues an agonizing choice between conscience and constituents...
Hanging nervously in the background, Administration leaders left the counterattack to the men best able to get away with it-the veterans in the House. Colorado's Democrat John Carroll, veteran of both World Wars, started the fight. Protesting the unprecedented scale of the bill, he moved to kill it outright. In the first showdown, the House voted twice to do so, but on standing and teller votes in which names are not recorded. Slick Parliamentarian Rankin was not to be licked so easily. Immediately, he demanded a roll call...
What Stuffy needs more than anything else -- except possibly more time -- is pitchers. Godin, the veteran righthander from Ohio, seems headed for a great season in his third year of varsity ball. He did some pitching for the Great Lakes nine which Bobby Feller managed, although Denny Galehouse did most of the hurling...
...Lucifer with a Book" describes the thoughts and experiences of a young veteran during his first--and last--year as an instructor at The Academy Fortunately gifted with more than a little insight and maturity, Guy Hudson unsuccessfully bucks the sham and hypocrisy of the school's ingrown existence, causing a mild upheaval in the Faculty. He is all too glad to leave The Academy in June with his pregnant sweetheart (a teacher at the neighboring Girls' School...