Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Taylor and I lead a very quiet life. We seldom entertain and seldom go out except to official functions. My drinking is limited to an occasional highball. I have been absolutely faithful to my wife for all the 20 years of our happy marriage. I work hard and make every effort to keep myself accurately informed...
...high-powered special committee to list qualified prospects for some 200 key Government vacancies each year. When Democratic National Chairman Bill Boyle popped in, Harry Truman-as head chieftain of his party, a position not even dreamed of by the founding fathers-talked over the 65 speeches he would make on his ten-day "nonpolitical" tour beginning May 7. He rounded out the day as the unofficial symbol of U.S. conscience, bought the first buddy poppy from little Nancy Jo Nolan...
...rose before the American Society of Newspaper Editors at lunch next day in Washington's Statler Hotel, he was the spokesman for the free world. "Our task," said he, "is to present the truth to the millions of people who are uninformed or misinformed or unconvinced . . . We must make ourselves known as we really are-not as Communist propaganda pictures...
...Paul Douglas stood virtually alone. For two weeks he had been hacking at the $1.5 billion rivers and harbors bill, trying to eliminate a list of projects which he thought were "flagrant examples of pork." Bravely he argued that the country could get along without spending $7,500 to make bathing pleasanter at Palm Beach; $21,000 to improve navigation for the crabbers of Twitch Cove, Md.; $34,500 to improve yachting at Stonington harbor, Conn. He thought that $1.3 million for dredging the Detroit River would benefit no one but the Detroit Edison Co., and that $36.9 million...
Congress had already authorized $360 million for the project. Actually, the exuberant Army Corps of Engineers had gone beyond that authorization to make contracts which would cost the Government $757 million. "The motto of the Army engineers," Douglas observed, "is 'Build us ever higher and more costly dams and more costly levees, O my Congress.' " He thought it was time to call a halt until Congress could study the whole vast Missouri River project, "which, if carried through, will be a monument to the mistakes and errors of man." He had studied the project carefully, he said...