Word: bobs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House lobby Honest Harold soon got to what was on his mind: dump Dick Nixon. "There are a number of men," said he, "who could lead our Republican Party to victory in 1960-Ambassador Lodge, Governor Rockefeller, Secretary [of the Treasury] Bob Anderson and Secretary [of the Interior] Fred Sea-ton." "Can't you think of one other?" a reporter asked. Stassen glowered at him, said nothing. "What about Nixon?" asked another. Replied Harold deadpan: "I think that this election of 1958 speaks for itself in that regard. I will be doing what I can to keep...
...somehow behaving in keeping with his presidential po tential. Hubert Humphrey was aboard the S.S. Liberte, bounding about on the promenade deck, shaking hands and making friends, on his way to Paris for UNESCO meetings that will help him in his role as a leading Democratic foreign policy spokesman. Bob Meyner was in his Trenton statehouse wondering how to get overseas next year in an effort to overcome admitted shortcomings in the foreign policy field ("I can't afford to go on my own hook, and if I let somebody pay for me, people will...
Territorial Labor Commissioner Henry Benson, 48, for Congress v. former Attorney General Ralph J. Rivers, 55. Seaton hardly needed to mention the second G.O.P. senatorial candidate, Juneau Attorney R. E. Robertson, who is certain to be defeated by popular Democrat Bob Bartlett, for 14 years Alaska's territorial delegate to Congress...
While none of the other Democratic candidates commanded as broad a lead as Bob Bartlett, they seemed far enough ahead of their Republican opponents to warrant all the push Fred Seaton could give-and Seaton pushed hard. He collected all the "things that ought to be done" and saved them for his campaign trip, frankly admitted that his basket of good news was calculated to help win the election. In Juneau he announced a long-awaited ban on the hated fish traps, symbol of the control of "absentee" Northwest fish canners and a chief cause of depletion of fish stocks...
Meanwhile, Harvard captain Bob Shaunessy was also getting into the act. "It seems to me," said Shag to a newspaperman, "that Yale doesn't always only beat you. Sometimes it likes to twist the knife a little." The big Crimson tackle was, perhaps, thinking of that memorable moment in the fourth quarter of last year's game when Olivar sent in his first team with the Eli point total already past...