Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There was one item about Humphrey's life which I failed to find out. He was quite a busy little man during the early forties, and perhaps he was not aware that we had a war from 1941 to 1945. Most of our youth his age laid aside personal ambitions for two or more years during that period...
...disaster on him, Scott let it be known that he had a secret weapon: recordings of telephone conversations during the campaign, in which many state leaders had been put on record as approving Dewey's campaign strategy. "Blackmail," cried his opponents. Said Scott, scrambling metaphors right & left: "Age must have its fling. The cliffhangers are making a last-ditch fight . . . My view is that the party has a choice of going back to Garfield or forward to victory." At 48, Hugh Scott was the youngest of the Republican committee brasshats and one of the few with a World...
...Atomic-age man had better learn, and quickly, how to live with radiation. Last week the Atomic Energy Commission called a conference in Washington of sanitary engineers and sewage and water supply experts from all over the U.S. There is no reason to get panicky, the AEC said in its best scientific manner, but the U.S. must realize that the use of radioactive substances is increasing rapidly. Public health authorities must familiarize themselves with radioactivity as a regular problem. In the curriculum of the atomic age, said AEC Chairman David E. Lilienthal, radiation "has become a kind of fourth...
...George Murphy), a good-hearted gamin (Butch Jenkins), and sundry other people you want to avoid. Worst of all it has Margaret O'Brien. This observer has always felt that M-G-M's Margaret is an ill-tempered, abnormal, sniveling little wretch; the sooner she reaches the awkward age the better...
Burr died on January 18 in his Newton home at the age of 83. He was a trustee of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Athenaeum, and left $10,000 to each in his will...