Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Taft had won his fight to keep an omnibus bill. Despite wolf cries of "veto" from Wayne Morse and Minority Leader Alben Barkley, he also put over the Ball amendment. But before the Senate approved it (60 to 28), it deleted the word "interfere," making the provision less restrictive than similar rules for employers...
...ranking minority member of the Foreign Relations Committee and as such assumed a burden of responsibility; he held earnest conversations with Cordell Hull. Then came the unprecedented policy meeting of Republican leaders held in September 1943, at Mackinac Island, Mich. At that conference Vandenberg produced the word "participation," which expressed the determination of the great majority of Republican Party leaders to stay in world affairs after...
...first, U.N. officials could not even remember who had suggested the rock in the first place. One functionary recalled that the name of the sponsoring organization had contained the word "Friendship." Another remembered distinctly that it had something to do with Massachusetts schoolchildren. Finally the truth emerged: the rock was to be donated to U.N. by the World Friendship Council (an organization devoted to amity of moppets everywhere). The Council in turn got the rock from Charles Henry Davis, a Cape Cod millionaire and idea man, last heard of when he proposed that an 80-ft. statue of Winston Churchill...
Quixotic A. P. Herbert kept at it, a small voice in a roaring hurricane. Finally the Speaker recognized him. Said Herbert: "I can't hear a word of the amendments. . . . The whole proceeding seems to be an absolute farce." With strained patience, the Speaker replied: "This is what the House has decided. I am carrying out a decision. ... I must carry on and I cannot have the proceedings interrupted...
...Valera: "I did not use that word...