Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...opening-session gavels fell, the air was rife with the shuffling and stomping of party leaders maneuvering for position. The Administration's tactics were: shoot the works, even on such issues as the Brannan Plan and Taft-Hartley repeal, which had little chance of passage, but would presumably make prime political ammunition later on. Administration leaders would plug hard to extend and increase social security, to jar the federal aid-to-education bill loose from the House Education and Labor Committee, to make Congress stand up and be counted on the compulsory health-insurance program...
...Havana gym, Scott Lucas accepted Dirksen's challenge-and managed to make foreign aid sound like a local assistance program. "The next time a smooth gentleman tells you we are pouring money down a rathole," he said, "ask him whether he means the money which has gone to Illinois factories or farms." Argued Lucas: the Marshall Plan brought Moline, Peoria and Chicago nearly $50 million in orders in the first nine months of the plan alone...
...Truman's holiday week back home in Missouri had obviously been "a very nice time," as he said afterwards, but he had made it plain that he had brought his work along. He begged off meeting with old cronies, vetoed onetime Partner Eddie Jacobson's scheme to make him an honorary fire chief and give him a red helmet, and skipped a party given in his honor by Kansas City's Truman Democratic Club, thereby generating a certain atmosphere of pique-the boys weren't really angry, but they were disappointed. Most of his days were...
Nothing daunted, the Senators went into secret session and confirmed the original list, adding Brigadier General Peron's name at its head. That left the President in a pretty pickle. How could he be so immodest as to make himself a major general? How, on the other hand, could he be so selfish as to return the list unapproved, thus holding up the promotions of 60 worthy officers? At week's end he found a neat solution: President Peron scratched out General Peron's name, then signed...
...first). It will be big enough to serve as an outpatient clinic. In it will be still more modern equipment, notably diathermy and basal metabolism machines. ("With those," says Dr. Reeves, "we'll have all the essentials.") Finally, there will be facilities for a skilled laboratory technician to make the countless tests demanded by modern diagnostic methods...