Word: paste
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...House Cleaning . . . Two months ago, Harry Truman asked Congress to transfer RFC to the Commerce Department, thus giving it family status. Last week the Senate voted an emphatic "no." Principal reason: a Senate investigating committee had been digging into RFC's past, was beginning to wonder whether RFC's lending machinery shouldn't be shut off altogether. What RFC needed, said Illinois' Paul Douglas (who had stoutly championed all the other presidential reorganization plans) was "not so much a transfer as a thorough house cleaning...
Mike Monroney held his press conferences in the back of a furniture store named Doc and Bill's, which he had inherited from his father. For the past twelve years he had been a Congressman; now he was trying to take Elmer's Senate seat away from...
...here, including the responsible Chinese I have so far seen, realize that this is no time to rake up the past for recriminations' sake. But all here also realize that this past has created problems to be dealt with now-and to be dealt with by U.S. officials whose attitudes and capacities, for the most part, can only be measured by the recent past...
...ever to reach the stature of a Budge or a Vines. Sedgman plays today's "big" game of constant attack. Best of the Americans (in the absence of Ted Schroeder, who is too busy with his refrigeration business to defend his title this year) is Billy Talbert himself, past his prime at 31 and a diabetic. Third and fourth seeded are Jaroslav Drobny, the self-exiled Czech with a singing serve which subsides to a whisper in an endurance match, and South African Eric Sturgess, a solid, stolid player of the old base-line school...
Women's tennis for the past four years has been dominated by Louise Brough, Wimbledon champion in 1949, and Margaret Osborne Du Pont, neither of whom has ever shown the verve of Pauline Betz or the grace of Alice Marble. Doris Hart, ranked third, has an outside chance of breaking up the Brough-Du Pont monopoly this year. No one expected as much of bouncing Gussie Moran, pressagent product of a tennis era in which mediocrity is often confused with talent...