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...steel dispute rolled into Washington, anyone could see that a dozen knotty issues would roll in with it, all tangled up like the parts of some inscrutable hieroglyph. That no one seems able to disentangle these issues and set them right is not all the fault of Truman's sword-play, for one of inflation's perversities, it seems, is to grow more impregnable with every attack...
...Hampshire's Republican Styles Bridges demanded a Judiciary Committee inquiry. South Carolina's Democrat Burnet Maybank called a halt to consideration of the controls program, due to expire June 30. Even the most ardent friends of labor warned that Harry Truman was wielding a two-edged sword-one that in the hands of another President might be turned against labor itself...
...former special deputy attorney general of Pennsylvania. They have two boys (11 and 9) and a girl (6). A Roman Catholic, McGranery has been honored by the Pope: he is a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great and a private Chamberlain of the Cape and Sword...
...suddenly, with a grinding crash as two ships came together, "there was Hornblower, hatless, swinging his leg over and leaping down to the deck, sword in hand, the others leaping with him on either side." The charge was sweeping the deck; Bush tried to spring forward to join it but his legs would not move. Soon, hands were lifting his head. "'Bush! Bush!' That was Hornblower's voice, pleading and tender. 'Bush, please, speak...
...learn the ancient art for himself. In Author T. H. White's case, the attempt grew mostly out of an urge to pit himself against an exacting challenge, as another man might set out to climb a stubborn mountain. White, the author of a charming Arthurian tale, The Sword in the Stone, and of an excellent small novel, Mistress Masham's Repose, tells his story with an art and force that make it a book to remember...