Word: abe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Least Glamorous. For Abe Ribicoff, service in the Kennedy Administration had not brought much of either a voice or a vote. Ribicoff, an able and savvy politician, was an early Kennedy supporter, and he expected to become Attorney General. Instead, he was given the HEW appointment-after it proved impolitic to hand it to Soapy Williams. Then Ribicoff also got word that a long-discussed post on the Supreme Court was not for him; he disclaimed his candidacy before the first vacancy went to Whizzer White...
...himself the job of chairman of the executive committee-Ferkauf delegated to one old friend after another all the time-nibbling detail work. A grammar school chum named Marty Agins has charge of the Westbury, Long Island, store. Joe Zwillenberg became company treasurer. Another executive job went to Abe Goldstein, a fellow Brooklynite whom Ferkauf met on K.P. duty at Camp Crowder, Mo. Recalls Ferkauf: "I was washing dishes, and Abe came over to me and said, 'Move over, I'll help you.' I've just gotten around to rewarding him. I've made...
...writer dolls are very talented. Wind up the Carl Sandburg doll, and it winds up the Abe Lincoln doll. The Lincoln doll walks 16 miles and comes back with a pretty penny for the Bruce Catton doll. Wind up the John O'Hara doll and it goes to Princeton. You wind up the Graham Greene doll and it confesses...
...vigor needed to do full justice to the campaign ahead, or to the responsibilities involved in serving another six years in the Senate." He looked tired, wore a hearing aid for the first time in public. That the campaign would be strenuous was obvious-since former Democratic Governor Abe Ribicoff, a great Connecticut vote-getter, is leaving the Kennedy Cabinet to run for the Senate. Bush did beat Ribicoff for the Senate in the Eisenhower landslide of 1952, but private polls by both parties now showed him trailing Ribicoff...
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