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Dates: during 1950-1950
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When Humphrey got up to speak, the Senate elders, one by one, led by Harry Byrd himself, quit the floor. -Angered by the pointed snub, Humphrey shouted defiantly: "The shrinking violet has not been clipped." He still thought that the Byrd committee was "a sort of political zombie," that it claimed credit for economies that the Administration had accomplished on its own hook. Cried Humphrey: "I would not say that was patting oneself on the back. I would say that is just twisting oneself up like a pretzel and spinning and announcing to the world the greatness...
...Less. All over Colombia and all around Latin America, U.S. businessmen were running into this sort of competition from Europe. In Caracas, Importer Eugenio Mendoza explained that he had stopped buying U.S. structural steel because Belgian, German and Luxembourg firms were offering him the same goods for $40 less than the $104-a-ton U.S. price. In Chile, the national airlines ordered British De Havilland transports. Salvadorean textile men found they could buy Italian rayon fiber for io/ a Ib. less than the U.S. article. In Lima's streets, women wore British nylons...
...with napkins. The cross section showed a mass of wires, entrails, arteries and porcelain eyes supported on a haphazard wooden scaffolding. "I can't tell you what it would mean to most people," Kay says, "but I do know what it means to me. It's a sort of showing what's inside-things half mechanical, half alive. The mountain itself can represent almost anything-a human being, life, the world, any fundamental thing...
...first business before Monday's meeting was the election of various town officials-among them Fence-viewer, Surveyor of Lumber and Bark, and Clam Commissioner. The next items in the warrant covered every sort of town problem: among them a plant to install parking meters in the center of town, appropriations for the repair of the Town Wharf, the need for a new fire engine. Each article in the warrant had been considered by the town's Finance Committee, a part appointive, part elective board, and this committee made recommendations to the meeting...
Jeanette MacDonald is no poor bet as far as talent goes, either. Her voice is warm, as well as on key, and her acting is nicely suited for this sort of musical comedy. In addition, she has other charms which are exhibited through the liberal use of low slung chemises...