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George Marshall went on to the attack. The $6.8 billion was not just an "asking figure," purposely padded in anticipation of congressional cutting. Clenching his fist, he demanded that Congress provide this "adequate" amount or reject his entire proposal. Said he: "An inadequate program would involve a wastage of our resources with an ineffective result. . . . Either undertake to meet the requirements of the problem or don't undertake...
...last week, Denfeld went to see his old & good friend Admiral William D. Leahy, the President's chief of staff. In his half-smothered bass voice, pounding his fist on the desk, mild Louis Denfeld told Leahy that he wanted Radford and nobody else...
...make money on cattle, Bob Kleberg runs his feudal domain with the hard fist of a feudal lord. But he has hundreds of miles of fence to mend and mind-and everything within those fences. To outsiders, the feudal fist sometimes seems too hard. There were unpleasant rumbles against the ranch in 1936 when two poachers supposedly disappeared within it. (The Klebergs think that if they really did disappear on their ranch, they might well have got lost and starved to death.) Now, as a good-will gesture, 40 hunters a week are permitted on the ranch during hunting seasons...
...soused saboteur, as another slow-motion voting session started that evening. One scholarly Liberal slowly recited Hamlet's "To be or not to be" in Japanese as he stood poised over the ballot box, waving a yes ballot and a no ballot in either hand. A wild fist-swinging melee began when opposition shock troops tried to rush the Speaker's rostrum...
...They did not even contest the presidency. With only the dimmest of hopes, they went through the formality of nominating candidates for the union's other jobs. The voting was the most orderly in the U.A.W.'s lusty history. For once, there were no hysterics and few fist fights...