Word: whip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patriot, adventurer and scalawag, McGuinness has run rum into the U.S., guns into Ireland for the I.R.A. and into Morocco for the Riffs. In the days of the Trouble he rescued Frank Carty, now government whip, from Londonderry jail, later accompanied Admiral Byrd to the South Pole...
M.P.s were not unaware of the danger that, as "chief whip" of the onetime two-man Churchill party (Churchill was the other member), Bracken might crack down on criticism of the present Government. But no previous minister has been as forthright as Bracken in demanding and promising safeguards for a critical press. Said he: "The Ministry does not and will not try to control the press...
...fair labor legislation. Through it all he has been a loyal New Dealer. Last week, partly as a reward and partly because his chunky shoulders could take it, he got a bigger job. Beaming with pleasure, grey-shocked Majority Leader John W. McCormack tapped him to be Democratic whip, to succeed Pennsylvania's late Patrick J. Boland...
Curly-haired Pat Boland hardly ever talked in the House, worked quietly in the halls and cloakrooms which are the whip's domain. Fervent Bob Ramspeck has made many impassioned speeches for his favorite causes. But he also knows the slick-floored, smoky, gossip-filled cloakrooms as few Congressmen...
...whip is to keep a finger on his party's pulse, head off revolts against Administration policy, keep a sharp lookout for opposition deals. With the Speaker, Sam Rayburn, and Majority Leader McCormack, he helps plot procedure and strategy. When votes are needed, the whip must bring them...