Word: 80th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator has always headed the committee. The first chairman, in the Republican 80th Congress, was Iowa's steady, hard-working Bourke B. Hickenlooper. In the Democratic 81st, Connecticut's yeasty Brien McMahon took over, to serve until he died last July. House members insist that there was an "understanding" that the chairmanship would alternate between the Senate and the House. (They let McMahon serve out of turn because he had sponsored the act establishing the committee.) Senate members don't seem to recall any such understanding...
...kept up a running attack on New Deal-Fair Deal domestic policies, he plugged for bipartisanship in foreign affairs, helped found the United Nations as a member of the U.S. delegation to the San Francisco Conference. As chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee during the Republican-controlled 80th Congress, he teamed with Senator Arthur Vandenberg to guide the Marshall Plan and other key foreign-aid programs through Congress...
...Zukor's 80th birthday, and Hollywood associates and friends decided to celebrate. They whisked the old man off to the West Coast, where he was whirled through luncheons, press conferences and interviews. At Grauman's Chinese Theater, Zukor arrived by limousine to place his footprints in wet cement near those of such immortals as Betty Grable and Ava Gardner; the event went off without a hitch except for a slight delay when Zukor insisted on removing his good black shoes and substituting an old pair...
...time since he was elevated nearly 14 years ago, Pope Pius XII left his Vatican palace to attend a concert half a mile away. The event: an oratorio and other sacred works composed and conducted by Lorenzo Perosi, director of the Pope's music, who recently celebrated his 80th birthday...
...General: William P. Rogers, 39, New York and Washington lawyer and wartime Navy lieut. commander, who began his career as a prosecutor under Tom Dewey, then New York County district attorney. Appointed counsel to the Senate's War Investigating Committee (once headed by Harry Truman) during the Republican 80th Congress, Rogers earned such a reputation for fairness and competence that the Democrats kept him on after they won back control of Congress in 1948. His first political job: helping his boss-to-be, Herb Brownell, present the Eisenhower case on the contested Southern delegations at the Chicago convention...