Word: abe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...companies having an important impact on interstate commerce, there was no dissent. But when NLRB last week showed what it meant by turning down six of eight union requests for federal supervision of bargaining elections,* the decision divided the five-man board on straight party lines. Board Member Abe Murdock, former Democratic Senator, charged that the board was abdicating its responsibilities, and that the decision of the Republican majority amounted to a "usurpation of legislative power by an administrative agency.'' By this "wholesale slash," said he, "it seems probable that at least 25% and perhaps...
...group of Italian Americans, declared that this election will show whether "the American dream is still alive--that any boy, regardless of race, creed, or color, has the right to aspire to public office. Where else but in the Democratic Party," he continued, "could you find a boy named Abe Ribicoff becoming a candidate for governor...
...knew Arthur Watkins' career in Washington was surprised at those qualities. But few knew his career. He first ran for Senator in 1946, accepting the nomination as a party duty when few thought he had a chance to beat the incumbent, Abe Murdock, a New Deal Democrat. Watkins won by 4,885 votes. He served a quiet but hard-working term, during which he was mainly noted as an admirer of Robert Taft and a foe of executive encroachment on the legislative branch. In 1952 he was re-elected (after not taking up a McCarthy offer to campaign...
...Irving Stone (Doubleday; $3.95), poses a problem: Can a bluegrass belle from Kentucky marry a rude rail splitter from Illinois and find enduring love and happiness in the White House? Author Stone supplies the answers in a 468-page Edgar Guestimate about the love and home life of Abe and Mary...
...show started off as a local TV program last spring. NBC and Producer Louis Cowan pulled it off the air after eleven weeks, overhauled it, then gave it a splashless launching all over again on radio. From week to week such sophisticated raconteurs as Bennett Cerf, Marc Connelly, Abe Burrows, Steve Allen and Sam Levenson join Fadiman for the kind of lively gab that has not been heard on radio since the old days of Information Please. Item: Punster Cerf's line about Ireland's Poet George ("A E") Russell and an angry moment when...