Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wings of the Wind. It was the end not only of that battle but of the war. The vote on the injunction showed the way the wind was blowing and Taft rode the wind to one of the most spectacular triumphs of his career. He offered an amendment to the Thomas bill which actually was a second serving of the Taft-Hartley Act, thinned down with 27 changes...
...housing bill already passed by the Senate, which had the support of many Republicans-including Robert Taft (TIME, May 2). But in the House, a group of Republicans led by Minority Leader Joe Martin and Indiana's Charlie Halleck fought the bill every inch of the way. It was, Halleck shouted, "another dangerous plunge in ... our headlong rush to overcentralization of control...
Pennsylvania's Congressman Francis Walter promptly began drafting a bill to provide what had always been assumed before: that Congress can run its business the way it pleases. Supreme Court decisions, groused Walter, echoing a former justice, are getting to be "like excursion tickets-good for one day only...
...things suddenly changed. Brenda had moved into Los Angeles, installed herself as the madam of a call house and found plenty of prosperity. As business improved she shifted from the tacky Fedora Street neighborhood to plushier headquarters on Hollywood's Sunset Strip, later moved on to swanky Harold Way. Some of Hollywood's shiniest names became her steady customers. Brenda felt so secure that she even took a quarter-page ad in a film directory published by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; it was a nice refined ad -just a couple of pictures...
Conversation Piece. Things might have gone along that way indefinitely if a nosy young vice squad sergeant named Charles Stoker hadn't got interested in Brenda's affairs. A tap was installed on Brenda's line and Stoker began to record some lively conversations. One was by another sergeant on the vice squad named Elmer Jackson, who called the city hall from Brenda's atelier. Another time Sergeant Jackson called to apologize to Brenda for a sheriffs' raid. Stoker reported his wiretap findings to a confidential aide of Chief of Police C. B. Horrall, then...