Word: anti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defense Secretary Neil McElroy took his seat in the target chair before the House Armed Services Committee. Studying him with trained marksmen's eyes sat the 37-man committee, headed by Georgia's Democrat Carl Vinson. Congress' No. 1 anti-reorganization man. Purpose of the hearing: to fire a few range and windage rounds at McElroy and the Administration's defense reorganization plan...
...implied criticism of the President. He apologized for nothing, admitted that he had called Democrats many a hard name, but never has called them a party of Communists, as Harry Truman likes to say. Admitted Nixon: "Politics the way I play it is a rough business." Said one longtime anti-Nixon newsman at evening's end: "He really won me over." ¶Because too many communiques might sound like too much saber-rattling, the Atomic Energy Commission will make announcements on no more than half the 30 nuclear shots to be fired at the mid-Pacific Eniwetok Proving Ground...
...were aimed not at O'Neill but at Hamilton County G.O.P. regulars with whom he has intermittently sparred since a Taft-led 1924 reform government took over Cincinnati, with reform-minded Charlie Taft later becoming county attorney. When Taft filed for governor, the county organization ordered a rousing anti-Taft vote "to show what Hamilton County Republicans really think of Charles P. Taft." To show what he really thought of the organization and presumably to protect his prestige in future elections, seven-term Councilman and Mayor (1955-57) Taft mailed 3,000 vote-seeking letters to city Republicans. Inevitably...
...people who live in temperate countries, vampire bats are colorful items for horror stories. In Latin America they are a too real horror. They carry rabies and transmit it to humans and animals, whose blood they drink. Rabies does not necessarily kill the vampires, and anti-bat measures by humans do not kill enough of them. Last week a Brazilian naturalist, Dr. Augusto Ruschi, 41, was working out a new solution of the vampire problem: biological warfare with a disease that kills bats only...
...Baltimore Sun and syndicated columnist (The Great Game of Politics), author (Political Behavior, A History of the Democratic Party); of uremic poisoning; in Baltimore. Kent was a registered Democrat, but his column-which at its peak in the '30s ran in well over 100 papers-was bitterly anti-New Deal, involved him in several celebrated controversies, e.g., with Harry Hopkins, to whom Kent attributed the statement: "We will tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect." Kent came out strongly for Eisenhower six months before the Republican Convention of 1952, continued to write his column (weekly since...