Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hero of the week was Bachelor Frank Murphy, whose sister Mrs. Margaret Teahan is still kept busy denying that she ever said, "He [Frank] looks more like Jesus every day." About him Washington has had a hard time making up its official mind, with admirers retelling stories of the goodness of his heart, his piety, his patience during the sit-down strikes, his liberalism, his bushy eyebrows, his devotion to President Roosevelt, while detractors remembered his complexity, moodiness, the tales of his self-righteousness and his habit of suddenly drifting off during a conversation, staring moodily into space. Because...
...there was 78-year-old George William Norris of Nebraska, the great crescents of his eyebrows black as ever, his stomach for a scrap still keen, though he often repeated: "My work is done." In the Senate sat six men each of whom hopes that, this time next year, he may be President-Garner of Texas, Wheeler of Montana, Taft of Ohio, Vandenberg of Michigan, Bridges of New Hampshire, Clark of Missouri. In the House at least two men had such hopes; Bankhead of Alabama, Martin of Massachusetts...
Last year, 30 days after the opening of Session I, Senate Leader Alben Barkley of Kentucky complained that the Congress had nothing to do. Three months later the Senate was still taking three-day recesses for want of work. As usual, in the last two or three weeks, Session I jammed through the entire legislative program in a last-minute, lickety-split finish...
Armies go, is neither so big nor so hungry. And, because it is even more undermanned, the U. S. Army is not so well organized as the Navy. Appropriations to bring the skeletal standing Army up to 227,000 men and 13,831 officers are still insufficient to flesh out vital corps organizations. At its new authorized strength of 235,000, the National Guard will be better for power, will still be undertrained and underequipped...
...plug the biggest gaps (modern field artillery, anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns, rapid-fire rifles, tanks, gas masks, ammunition). For such ordnance the Army last year got almost as much as Malin Craig had begged, in last week's estimates was allotted $100,266,413 more, was still far from surfeited. Only for Air Corps expansion did the Army feel well fed. After the $300,000,000 of money for the Air Corps voted last year, a mere $76,205,988 for new planes and parts (mostly replacements) appeared in the new budget. Other Army items...