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Question: What do you do if the kinfolk show up only at hog-killing time, licking their chops for pork? Answer: Keep the execution secret. Question: What do you do when your husband's whittle shavings are always flying into the piecrust? Answer: Get him a "whittling room...
Discussing the employment issue, Saltonstall told the wildly receptive crowd that he had no intention of denying a charge that he has "pork-barreled" Federal funds to help the state's employment. He said he was proud to be a pork-barreler if it meant getting jobs for New Englanders, pointing out that one out of fourteen industrial workers in the state today holds a job procured from the government...
...wonder how much he can stand after the show the two candidates put on this week. Speaking on Tuesday in West Orange, N.J., vice-President Nixon told an enthusiastic audience that his opponent's farm program would raise family food costs by 25 per cent, reduce beef and pork supplies to wartime rationed levels and put two million people out of work. He added that Democratic farm proposals would drive a million people "now engaged in serving the needs of farm people" into unemployment, would encourage Soviet agricultural supremacy, and would raise the consumer price index by six per cent...
Playing to the legislators' pride, he cried. "Don't you think Kasavubu has insulted you by trying to set up a new government without consulting you?" He opened the pork barrel, suggesting that there were 60 ambassadorial jobs to be filled in Congolese diplomatic posts abroad. "For these tasks of prestige and savoir faire, I must depend on you, my dear colleagues." smiled Lumumba...
...Democratic primary runoff election that will surely plop him into the U.S. House of Representatives next January, Louisiana's ex-Governor Earl Long, a hard-living 65, was borne by stretcher from victory to a hospital. His self-diagnosis: ptomaine poisoning from eating some very ripe pork. Drawled Ole Earl of his triumph over Incumbent Harold McSween in the back-country Eighth District race: "Ah don't think it helped McSween with all that about mah bein' crazy...