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First committee room leak: the bill will cost U. S. consumers $800,000,000 per year. "But," explained Secretary Wallace, "that's only a drop in the bucket if prosperity is restored...
This first question be answers, as the majority would, in the negative, claiming that the high-school graduate of today is, if anything, more stereotyped and dull than his predecessor. If this is true, or even partly true, the search for the leak must be elsewhere. Mr. Mencken finds this cause of waste in the growth of special classes for the backward and in the large number of various sorts of experts which infest every modern school. Actually, there is another and even worse cause for growing expenditures: this is the movement towards a large number of courses in every...
...Republicans and Democrats but as Conservatives and Liberals. Roosevelt apologists tried to explain that what he meant was that the conservative majority was Republican, thus "controlling" the court's decisions. Partisan politics has often washed the sacred doorstep of the Supreme Court, if it did not leak inside. Charles Evans Hughes in 1916 quit the august bench to run for President as a Republican. In 1930 President Hoover, anxious to repay his political debt to the South for its vote in 1928, appointed John Johnston Parker, a North Carolina Republican, to the Supreme Court only to have the Senate...
...stout cable. When he hauled it back to the deck of his tug Freedom, the bathysphere was full of water under pressure such that it blew the lid's bolt across the deck after it was loosened. There was a tiny leak in a port gasket. Any surface creature inside would have been crushed to jelly...
...finish two miles behind Miss America X, She had a broken throttle at the carburetor on her starboard motor, a break in the overflow pipe for water circulation that shot water into the boat instead of over the side, caused Kaye Don to wonder if he had sprung a leak...