Word: whip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alabama, industrious John Sparkman, House Majority Whip, missed a clear majority over four opponents by a whisker (less than 300 votes), in a contest to fill the Senate seat of the late John H. Bankhead. In the runoff, Sparkman faces conservative James A. Simpson, Birmingham corporation lawyer, who ran second in both rural and city districts...
Vince Moravec will got the nod from Samborski tomorrow if his arm is in shape. Moravec pitched against Squantum last Monday and had to be pulled at the end of the fifth inning when he developed a sore arm. If Vince's whip is not in shape, Samborski's alternate choice will be either Seymour Croft or Crawford Hubbell. Croft pitched the last two innings of Monday's game and turned in a very workmanlike performance allowing only one run and two hits...
...animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." Last week Russia, which long ago branded equality as "egalitarian" heresy, took another step toward hierarchy. True to Philosopher Yudin's axiom that to preserve the Red Army means to preserve the state, Generalissimo Stalin issued a whip-cracking new set of army regulations. The statutes ordered Red warriors to "respect seniors in command . . . observe strictly military conduct and the salute...
...pheasants. Winter & summer, day began at 5 a.m., when Lord Alconleigh greeted the dawn with one his favorite records (Drake Is Sailing West, Lads, the "mad" scene from Lucia, or Lo, Here the Gentle Lark, sung by Galli-Curci), and strode on to the lawn cracking a Canadian stock whip. After breakfast, he gave his daughters a brief head start, then hunted them crosscountry with four bloodhounds...
Delaying Action. In the Senate, there were furious backstage maneuvers. Ohio's Republican Robert Taft had already cried the first "Halt!" to the President's whip-cracking proposal (TIME, June 3). Belatedly, Democrats set to work. Florida's Claude Pepper, ambitious to be the leader of Franklin Roosevelt's heirs and of the left-of-center Democrats, began a near-filibuster...