Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Attack in the Senate. Even before the Senate met, Southern Democrats showed their muscle. In the caucus to elect a new majority leader, they rejected Wyoming's Joseph O'Mahoney, who was backed by outnumbered and plaintive Fair Dealers; the caucus elected Arizona's Ernest McFarland, an amiable, inconspicuous second-termer who consistently breaks with the Fair Deal on civil rights. For the job of whip the caucus picked Texas' Lyndon Johnson, chairman of the Armed Services Preparedness subcommittee, who defies the Administration just as regularly on civil rights, labor, tidelands...
...Arizona-born Hector Escobosa drew his first bead on the business world as a schoolboy window dresser (at no pay) for San Francisco's cavernous Emporium. While attending the University of California nights, he moved on to sales promotion and dress buying at Hale Brothers, and after a stint as vice president and manager of Kansas City's big-volume Jones department store, became boss...
...Venezuela's military dictatorship government booted out Robert Berrellez, 30, Arizona-born chief of the A.P.'s Caracas bureau. Berrellez was not told why he was ordered out, but the U.S. embassy was informed that he had written articles that had been offensive to the government...
Husky young T. C. Gaines, an Arizona farmer, had promised to lend his tractor to a neighbor. One day last May, as good as his word, he delivered the tractor and drove his truck over to the neighbor's farm to explain its workings. As he filled the tractor's tank with gas, a hired hand lit a cigarette. A split second later, panic-stricken Gaines was streaking across the field, his gasoline-soaked clothes a flaming torch. His friends managed to halt his flight, put out the flames and got him to the truck. No one else...
Favorite exhibit on a floating waxworks plying the rivers and canals of Belgium and France: a Pullman car scene, labeled "Honeymoon in Arizona," with Mickey Rooney in an upper berth, Judy Garland in a lower, both gazing at some painted Indians...