Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First Caller. Sorrowfully, Alcorn got word to Adams, then off fishing in Canada, that he was wanted back in Washington. Adams knew that there was only one possible reason for his required return. He was back at his White House desk by 8 o'clock the following Monday...
...first caller was Meade Alcorn, who talked for an hour while Adams sat impassively, head thrown back, looking at the ceiling, nibbling on a stem of his glasses. When Alcorn finally finished, Sherman Adams agreed to leave...
Meanwhile, back at the statehouse, Old Foe Ernest McFarland, elected Arizona's Governor in 1954, nursed his grudge against Goldwater, never missed a ribbon-cutting, a chance to wave at a gathering of constituents or shake an Arizona hand. Last week McFarland opened his senatorial campaign in Willcox. where 50,000 Arizonans were conveniently gathered for the Rex Allen Days-two days of homage to Willcox's most prominent son, the movie cowpoke and star of TV's Frontier Doctor. Stalking the vote, addressing every male under 80 as "young man," Ernie paced Haskell Avenue, patting juvenile...
Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa was back at the old stand-the witness stand in the Senate caucus room in Washington, confronted by a few of his sorely tried inquisitors: Arkansas' weary, sardonic Senator John McClellan, chairman of the Senate labor rackets investigating committee ; New York's finger-waggling Senator Irving Ives; and Hoffa's most implacable enemy, Committee Counsel Robert F. Kennedy, 32, who would give his celebrated forelock to see Hoffa jammed...
...Presser's union paid $1,000 for "public relations and professional services" to Ohio's former (1955-57) Republican Senator George Bender, who is now one of three "antiracketeering" commissioners appointed by Hoffa himself. Bender's answer: he sent the money back...