Word: ashbrook
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...Republican bitterly denounced a Democratic committee chairman-and, in the process, scolded the House itself. The victim of the attack was Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell Jr., chairman of the Education and Labor Committee (as usual, Powell was absent at the time). The attacker: second-termer John Milan Ashbrook, 34, attorney, Johnstown, Ohio, newspaper publisher and former national chairman of the Young Republican National Federation...
...Capitol lunch eleven fellow alumni who are all Republican members of Congress. Flaunting their Cambridge-induced independence of mind by wearing their three-button suits, the old boys did not hesitate to bite the hand that had fed them knowledge. "A Harvard professor." proclaimed Ohio's Representative John Ashbrook ('52), "is an egghead who thinks the American eagle needs two left wings." The consensus was best expressed by New York's Senator Kenneth Keating (LL.B. '23 ): "It's about time it is known that Harvard turns out enlightened men as well as Democrats...
...Well, what bill do you think we should have put in?" asked FCC's Chief Counsel Ashbrook P. Bryant...
Looking something like Jack Paar. the FCC's Chief Counsel Ashbrook P. Bryant roamed about with a microphone around his neck, seeking truth. What about sponsor control? How about all those pressures and taboos? "Flyspecks," said CBS-TV President James T. Aubrey. "Completely insignificant." Why did Playhouse go-probably the best dramatic show in TV's brief history-disappear from the air? Because, said Stanton, the audience "became much smaller than we thought it should be." In television a few million viewers are not enough...
Trembling only slightly, Chief Counsel Ashbrook Bryant looked over the upper rims of his glasses into the robin's-egg eyes of the witness, and asked: "In plain words, what happened...