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...only the deputies of his Christian Democratic Party seemed even to listen to the Premier's plea. Togliatti buried his nose in a picture magazine. The opposition demanded the vote. By a margin of 19 votes-282 to 263, with 37 center deputies abstaining-the Chamber rejected Alcide de Gasperi's proposed cabinet and propelled Italy into her worst political crisis since the war. Only once before in 31 years had an Italian Parliament forced a Premier to resign. His name was Luigi Facta, and the man who soon succeeded him was Benito Mussolini...
...think they can stop it . . ."). Kiplinger writes every line of the Washington Letter himself, sometimes rewrites an item a dozen times to produce what he calls "sweep lines," i.e., sentences that have a single thought to a line, and that end with a punctuation mark at the right-hand margin...
Most of the companies that reported smaller profits this year were off by only a small margin, e.g., Industrial Rayon Corp., down from $2.35 a share to $2.33. A few companies reported deficits. One of the biggest: Lehigh Valley Coal Corp., which lost $1,146,019 in the first half v. a net loss of $569,093 a year...
This week, as the time came for the crucial vote, the House was filled and tense. But Joe Martin had a remarkably cheerful air. The reason: his agents had reported that the Rules Committee recommendation could carry by a 30-vote margin, and he had just used this leverage to good effect on both Democrats and Republicans on Dan Reed's Ways & Means Committee. After a long quorum call, Martin gave the floor to Charlie Halleck for a surprising announcement: the G.O.P. leadership had decided not to ask for a vote on the Rules Committee's EPT report...
...that Tydings would have been beaten anyway . . . The Connecticut case is even clearer. In 1950, McCarthy campaigned against [William] Benton, and Benton won in what was a generally tough year for the Democrats. In 1952, McCarthy made Benton almost his chief campaign target, [and] Benton ran a considerable margin ahead of Stevenson...