Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What they like best is his open-faced friendliness, his native talent for conveying to doubters "outside" what Alaska is all about. "I'm Mike Stepovich," he says quietly to strangers, and then, tentatively : "I'm Governor of Alaska." Unschooled in the well-oiled sophistication expected of Governors, he is content to make his points with an earnest warmth that radiates alley or when a he waits his barbershop-or turn a in a territorial bowling committee meeting. And beneath all of this is the tough mettle that was born in him and was strengthened on the cold...
...Best Friend. Congress was unimpressed. Eisenhower's Interior Secretary Douglas McKay appeared similarly uninterested. It was only after McKay's resignation in 1956 that Alaska's hopes grew again. President Eisenhower appointed Nebraska's Republican ex-Senator Fred Seaton to McKay's job, and Seaton became the best friend Alaska statehood ever had in official Washington...
Secretary of State: Pierre Guillamat, 48, former administrative head of the French Atomic Energy Commission, and a stout nationalist who is best remembered by delegates to international conferences for his insistence that France-regardless of cost or efficiency-make her own atomic bombs...
With some distaste, London journalists did their best to explain to their readers the strange marital customs of the U. S. South. But it soon turned out that Mrs. Lewis was even kinda younger than her husband saw fit to say. Memphis court records showed her age to be 13, and her quickie marriage last December took place more than five months before Jerry's divorce from wife...
...under peaceable conditions as an old soldier of France.' Then he asked: 'Who am I talking to?' We explained that it was station WMGM in New York City. Said De Gaulle: 'Oh, the motion picture company?'* Then the voice screamed: 'Everybody knows the best station in New York is WINS! Vive la France!' We knew then that it was a hoax...