Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Patronage. McCarran was in a perfect position to benefit by this lesson; on reaching the Senate he had been assigned to two of its most powerful units, the Judiciary and Appropriations committees. Under the seniority system, he had only to wait for time to run its course. He buttered up the Appropriations Committee chairman, Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar, who named Pat chairman of the key subcommittee dealing with funds for the State, Justice and Commerce Departments, thereby giving McCarran a stranglehold which he never really relinquished...
...know that the C.I.O. platform calls for $1.25. Just as soon as we come up with our findings, the Department of Labor will make recommendations to the President for action by Congress this coming session." Congress has met; Congress has adjourned. How much longer must we wait for the study...
...played the Communist game, informed on one American fellow prisoner and recommended that another be shot. Last week in San Antonio, an Army court-martial gave Batchelor the stiffest sentence yet imposed on any American collaborationist: life imprisonment. In Tokyo his wife, still writing letters, said she would "wait . . . no matter how long...
...committee will wait until the poll is complete before recommending a definite plan of action, Hastie said...
Friends and students have appealed directly on Huang's behalf to the President, Senator Saltonstall, and Immigration officials. His wife has appealed for entrance through the Refugee Act, under a waiting list twenty-five years long. Huang feels that he has explored every logical path leading to his family, and all have been blind alleys. Tired, he can only say, "I wish that we were allowed to choose our own future, as free men should. We just don't have twenty-five years to wait...