Word: wagged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Third Race: Dandy Wag...
Last November's elections showed the folly of letting the "liberal" tail wag the Democratic dog, he continued. By trying to mold the Democratic Party to their own image, "extremists who call themselves liberals" had alienated Southern voters and lost the election for two "great Americans"-Stevenson and Sparkman. If the liberals continued their efforts "to drive the South out of the party," he warned, the Democrats would suffer "the most disastrous defeat in American political history" in next year's congressional elections...
After the Senate confirmed Charles Erwin Wilson as Defense Secretary, a Pentagon wag quipped: "They okayed him lock and barrel." Last week the Senate's Armed Services Committee okayed Wilson's four top assistants on the same lock-and-barrel basis-minus stock in defense industries. Then the committee recalled Air Secretary-designate Harold E. Talbott for a third round of questioning. The Senate went ahead and confirmed the other three appointees by voice vote...
...Essex Show at Madison, NJ. Other breed champions: Pekingese Ch. Tai Chuo Sun of Dah Wong, owned by Sara F. Hodges and Aimée Ferret; Laura Franklin Delano's long-haired dachshund, Ch. Tytucker of Gypsy Barn; Mr. & Mrs. Steven G. Gillich's chowchow, Ch. Owhyo Wag-Gee (winner of 130 best-of-breed blue ribbons in four years); J. Stuart Walton's Ch. Lyn Mar's Clown (best basset hound at the Westminster show for the past three years...
This set off legal actions and bitter recriminations which gave Birmingham tongues something to wag about for four years. Determined to get back a block of stock he had given his son, Ingalls Sr. brought court action to force him to sell it to stockholders under a 1943 agreement. The court turned him down, on the ground that the stock could be retired only by death or resignation, not by firing. Then he sent armed guards with $2,131,000 in $1,000 bills to Bob Jr. to buy the stock back. Young Bob refused, saying that it was worth...