Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Republicans cried that Harry Truman was trying to discredit the whole law. The law provided, they pointed out, that the Attorney General might admit aliens temporarily at his own discretion. But the law also specified that he had to make a full report to Congress on each case every time he did so-and no Attorney General was likely to leave himself open to criticism when rigorous enforcement would save him the trouble...
...sing," he explained. Arturo Toscanini was waved in though technically he too was suspicious: during Il Duce's regime, he had led an Italian orchestra, once ran for the Italian Senate with Mussolini on the Socialist ticket in 1919. Obviously the Attorney General felt he could make an exception of Toscanini...
Putting down his pruning shears, Budget Director Frederick Lawton announced happily that he had cut $580 million in non-defense items off the $36 billion omnibus appropriations act for fiscal 1951. The cut was $30 million more than had been ordered by Congress, which had timorously refused to make its own economies. Director Lawton left himself a big loophole, however. The extra $30 million would be put in reserve, to be doled out to the agencies if they felt a pinch later...
...Dewey looked a television camera in the eye one afternoon this week and quietly set 1952 Republican presidential preliminaries spinning like a helicopter rotor. Announcing with a studied choice of words that he was out of the race for the presidency in 1952, he went on to make a bigger Page One story: Tom Dewey was for General Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...World War I), Hanley had been in New York State politics since 1926. Recently he had become worried about going blind (his right eye was removed in 1948), and concerned about his livelihood. This summer, he had borrowed a reported $30,000 from two prominent Republican friends, to make the race for governor. One was Publisher Frank Gannett. The other was former State G.O.P. Chairman W. Kingsland Macy, to whom he had written his letter...