Word: boom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convention hall's one real moment of excitement followed the spontaneous burst of cheering with which General Dwight D. Eisenhower was hailed. But when Kansas delegates thronged forward in an attempt to set off an Eisenhower-for-President boom, National Commander Paul Griffith waved them back. The ovation ended after only 30 seconds, and with it the theory that the convention would play a major part in presidential politics. (Presidential Aspirant Harold Stassen, a delegate to the convention, got a thunderous ovation when he spoke in behalf of the "Marshall approach...
...Threshold. When the speeches began, the nonpartisan bonds slipped a bit, and there were sounds very like a muffled boom. Cried Massachusetts' Governor Robert Bradford, who returned from a vacation in Maine for the celebration: "He's only on the threshold of an even greater career." Massachusetts' Senator Leverett Saltonstall, a leading candidate for "favorite son" himself, declared: "If he wants more, the people of Massachusetts will be with...
Pollster George Gallup investigated the Eisenhower-for-President boom this week. Asked whether Ike is a Republican or a Democrat, 22% of those polled said they thought he was a Republican, 20% a Democrat, 58% said they did not know. (But if Ike wants to run in 1948 it will obviously have to be as a Republican; Harry Truman has the Democratic nomination sewed up.) Asked if they would like to see Ike a presidential candidate, the replies were: yes, 35%; no, 48%; did not know...
This behind-bars art boom was started by 20 young proletarian artists, who call themselves "the Wedge." The group is dedicated to teaching painting to people who otherwise would not know an easel from a weasel. Formed six years ago-when most of its members were still art students-the Wedgies have inspired some 600 proselytes (in & out of jail). Bricklayers, factory workers and carpenters by day, Wedge members invade the prisons at night, with armloads of free paint and canvas. For their work in provincial jails and small villages, the art missionaries dip into the group kitty, which...
Navy Ahoy. Of recent years, Duke Sam's exclusiveness has begun to fray around the cuffs. Except for the war boom, his company, which controls three golf courses (including Pebble Beach and Cypress Point), two hotels and a beach-sand processing plant, has lost money from 1932 on. When the U.S. Navy took over his famed 400-room Del Monte Hotel as a wartime training center, Duke Sam began to wonder if naval officers would not be a possible mainstay for the new depression he feared. So-why not sell the Navy his Del Monte Hotel...