Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the long list of resolutions, which NAMsters, like all conventioneering Americans, love to pass, had a realistic ring. Example: when N.A.M. called for balancing the federal budget, it sensibly asked that it be done, not at once, but by 1947-48 (when Treasury Secretary Vinson thinks it can be) and at a reasonably liberal figure of $20 billion...
...battle was not over, by a long shot. The Navy has good and potent friends in Congress-particularly David I. Walsh in the Senate and Carl Vinson in the House. There is little chance that a bill can be reported out in time for a vote at this session; it will be early January before it reaches the floor. Much can happen before then...
Reading about "owlish Fred Vinson," "owlish Boss Crump," "hen-shaped Mayor LaGuardia," I am disturbed by an increasing ornithophobia. I now spend too much time peering into the faces of my friends for aviary symptoms. No owls, they. I have only succeeded in upsetting and alienating them. In a world fraught with crises, one prospect looms: one of these days they'll find me addressing a pigeon as "Your Honor...
...Unsold Case. The U.S. negotiators had not wanted to turn the screws on the British. Secretary of the Treasury Fred M. Vinson and Assistant Secretary of State Will Clayton sympathetically understood the British case, wanted to give Britain the best deal possible...
...sedate congressional committee room rang last week with the din of intercollegiate battle. The House Naval Affairs Committee, under the watchful eye of billiard-bald Chairman Carl Vinson, sat, looked and listened. Tiny, ancient, impoverished St. John's College was defending its 160-year-old campus against the predatory onslaught of its huge wealthy neighbor, the U.S. Naval Academy...