Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Candidate Dwight Eisenhower's adviser on government operations, drew up plans for coordinating federal agencies; after Eisenhower was elected, served on a three-man (other members: Milton Eisenhower, Arthur Flemming) committee that streamlined government, established -among other things-a new Department of Health, Education and Welfare. ¶As HEW under secretary (1953-54), drafted legislation to extend Social Security benefits and increase vocational rehabilitation. Also offered other proposals, e.g., federal reinsurance to extend private-hospitalization benefits, aid to education, that were too liberal for the Eisenhower Administration...
...white and blue bus, the Republicans' political neophyte, retired Pretzel Manufacturer Arthur Toy McGonigle, 52, was doing his resolute best last week to retrieve the seat in Harrisburg that his party lost four years ago. The ride is uphill all the way. The Democratic candidate is Pittsburgh's four-term Mayor David Leo Lawrence, 69, one of the savviest and deftest political bosses in a state loaded with them. With 55 years in professional politics, and with Pittsburgh's gleaming new skyscrapers and superhighways as personal monuments, Dave Lawrence has a statewide reputation, strong support in Philadelphia...
...this year. The $1 anniversary issue carries $1,040,000 worth of ads, and articles that are hardly for hairy-chested males or boudoir bounders: musings on his craft by Poet Robert Graves, blasts against conformity by Educator Robert Hutchins, and the early thoughts of Playwright Arthur Miller on his forthcoming movie about street gangs. Gone are the busty girls...
...Arthur Murray taught me dancing...
...When Arthur Murray dance studios began springing up all over the U.S. 20 years ago, the big sales pitch was learning to dance in a hurry at a small cost. But no longer. Now that the Murray studios have expanded to 450 on four continents doing $55 million of business last year, dancing takes more time-and more money...