Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Illinois' Freshman Paul Douglas led a band of Northern and Eastern Senators in the attack. Said Douglas: "So great is the demand for natural gas . . . that pipelines are being laid frantically down into the Southwest. In the past two years more than 18,000 miles of pipeline have been authorized. Natural gas will shortly pour into the North Atlantic and New England states and into the states of the South Atlantic and Middle West. It is a seller's market and the big gas and oilmen are riding high...
...Horse Thieves" & Bounties. In the House the fight was closer, the debate more fiery. When the bill was called up, Michigan's Democrat John Dingell rose to the attack. "Horse thieves have been hanged for lesser crimes," he shouted. Cried Ohio's Democrat Robert Grosser: "The bounty of the Creator is being grabbed for a privileged...
...Seitz has little hope of reconciliation. The best that can be hoped for is a walled-off truce, but even this will be impossible, he points out, unless "the military strength of the Western nations [is maintained] at a level so great that Russia will not be willing to attack us ... I do not believe we can afford to refrain from accelerating our arms program beyond the present year. Even a delay of this length of time may be unwise...
...literary attack on the teacher, as Psychologist Charles analyzes it, had its first flowering during the flowering of New England. William Ellery Channing, for instance, seemed to think that the essential qualities of the schoolmarm were "gray hair and spectacles." Of his own schoolmistress he recalled: "Her nose was peculiarly privileged and honored, for it bore two spectacles. The locks which strayed from her close mobcap were most evidently the growth of other times." Clucking sympathetically, Oliver Wendell Holmes struck a similar note. The teacher he described in Elsie Venner was "a poor, overtasked, nervous creature-we must not think...
...Church, 66, longtime (seven terms) Republican Congressman from Illinois, conscientious respondent to House roll calls, who in 1937 forced the House to hold its only Thanksgiving Day meeting (20 minutes) by objecting to adjournment, and once, two years later, attended a session in a wheel chair; of a heart attack while testifying before the House Committee on Executive Expenditures; in Washington...