Word: bobs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration and the Democratic congressional leadership sealed their agreement to 1) oppose any tax cuts, 2) go along together on a bill that simply extends for one year the taxes now set for reduction at month's end. But both White House and Capitol Hill knew that Bob Anderson was principally responsible for one of the brightest tactical maneuvers of the Eisenhower Administration-a maneuver that had checked Democratic passions for tax cuts, held back such powerful and restive Republicans as Vice President Nixon and Labor Secretary Mitchell, and won a victory for the kind of conservative, second thought...
Mike Stepovich, happy as a sourdough with a new-found nugget, turned to leave, stopped to sign autographs for well-wishers, then stepped outside to pose for pictures and some hugs-and-backslap horseplay with Alaska's Democratic Delegate E. L. ("Bob") Bartlett and with two engineers of the House victory: New York's Democrat Leo O'Brien and Pennsylvania's Republican John Saylor. It was Floor Manager O'Brien, counseled at every turn by Speaker Sam Rayburn, who had beaten back strong-willed opposition from Virginia's Democratic Howard Smith, chairman...
Says Alaska Federation of Labor President Bob McFarland, 47 (home town, Republic, Wash.): "You find so many brilliant people here, people attracted by the sense of challenge that Hawaii, for example, could never supply. Yet life is slower and tastier somehow. I've been back to New York twice-a walk up Times Square and I've just about had it. Now put the reins in our hands and see what we do with it." Says Governor Mike Stepovich: "Only the people of little faith are against statehood...
Yahoos & Tears. For years, the statehood theme had whisked like a williwaw across the territory, sweeping up the visionaries, tossing the stubborn into stormy waves of opposition. In Washington, Alaska's longtime (first elected in 1944) delegate to Congress, onetime Gold Miner Bob Bartlett, spent his days and nights trying to carve out a 49th star on an unrelenting congressional conscience. Another missionary was a former newsman and editor of the Nation, Dr. Ernest Gruening (TIME, June 16, 1947), appointed Governor of Alaska by Franklin Roosevelt in 1939. A diehard conservationist, crusty Ernest Gruening soon realized that Alaska...
Alaska has a stir and a throb that reaches far beyond the cities, into the tundra, across the forbidding mountains and glaciers, into the valleys. For most Alaskans, each day is a dare, each night a doubtful victory. Territorial Police Superintendent Bob Brandt's meager force of uniformed police and U.S. deputy marshals patrol the vastnesses in planes, helicopters and on dog sleds, alert for signs of old trappers who sometimes die on the trail and are eaten by their dogs; for pillagers who ransack the remote cabins, where a food cache is a guarantee of life...