Word: whipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lloyd's concession repaired what might have been a serious breach. At division time, on a motion to censure the government, a handful of younger Tories still remained stubbornly in their places. Chief Government Whip Ted Heath bent over them, arguing earnestly like a schoolmaster with wayward children. At the last minute, two of them got up and headed for the Tory lobby, to side with the government...
...bought poultry from a breeder named Heinrich Himmler. Opposite the Strauss butchershop, at No. 50 Schellingstrasse, Heinrich Hoffmann owned a photographic shop; a frequent visitor was a pale man with a wispy mustache named Adolf Hitler, who wore a trench coat and nervously slapped his boots with a dog whip. A goggle-eyed witness of the spectacular rise of Hitler, Himmler & Co. was the butcher's stocky son, Franz Josef. Catching his son distributing Nazi propaganda one day, Butcher Strauss, a staunch Catholic, gave the boy a thrashing right there in the Schellingstrasse. Said Franz Josef Strauss, recalling...
...Club, headed by Herbert Gleason 2L, has worked with the other Democratic clubs in the main activities, but has also sponsored projects outside of its major obligations. Workers have campaigned in Lexington for the national ticket and for Jimmy O'Dea, a candidate for district attorney and presently Democratic whip of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Other groups from the Law School club, whose membership is over 200, have done canvassing and research for Jackson J. Holtz, Democratic challenger for the seat in the United States House now occupied by Lawrence Curtis...
...when Democrat Joseph W. Byrns, his paper's candidate for re-election from Tennessee's Fifth Congressional District, voted to delay the draft for 60 days, ran and beat Byrns as a New Dealing independent, was elected seven more times, won respect from both parties as Democratic whip (1949-53), chairman of the House Committee on Foreign and Interstate Commerce (since 1953), and as a campaigner for public health measures; after surgery for a duodenal ulcer; in Nashville...
...Buggy Whip...