Word: whip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inheritors. The moving spirit of the gathering was Majority Whip Kenneth Wherry, the ex-isolationist from Nebraska. Among the conferees were such diehard inheritors of the old isolationist tradition as Ohio's John Bricker, Illinois' "Curley" Brooks, Missouri's James Kem. In all, 20 Republican Senators turned up. Except for California's Bill Knowland, all were men who had been stirring restlessly under the bipartisan policy. All had been growing increasingly critical of Arthur Vandenberg's willingness to work with the Administration...
...cited statements from several Soviet newspapers, calling Walter Lippmann "a faithful servant of monopolistic circles" and Brooks Atkinson, New York Times drama critic, "a mercenary bandit, not fit to whip ... a product of the Stock Exchange and the black markets...
...Ettisch from his Beverly Hills villa. As the campaign got rolling, there was a spate of headlines like BABY ABANDONED BY BARFLY MOTHER. Hearst reporters knew, without anyone telling them, that they could get space with stories about women in bars. But it was a little hard to whip up public indignation. "The whole thing sounds as old-fashioned as the pink lady, sniffed a San Francisco woman, ordering another oldfashioned...
...long-range rehabilitation under ERP (the Marshall Plan) was an entirely different matter. Illinois' Leslie C. Arends, Republican whip in the House, proposed that a national referendum be held on the question: "Are you willing to pay your share of the Marshall Plan if it means a minimum of 10% increase in your cost of living, a withholding tax of at least 30% of your pay instead of the present 20%?" This was only the beginning. If Bob Taft had his way-and kept heading the way he seemed to be going-ERP was in for serious trouble...
...flew away to England. "She's a kind, generous woman," said the members of her hunt, but by week's end, as more & more farmers joined the boycott, the Blazers were hunting under police protection and there was more trouble ahead for them. Said Harry Walker, second whip of the hunt: "If Mrs. Hanbury goes, the kennel staff goes...