Word: branded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exact measure of the effect of Maverick Lee's intervention, Utahans will have to wait until the November general election. Even admirers of the Lee brand of political intransigence give him only an outside chance at best of beating Arthur Watkins...
Dangling Line. Sherman Adams set the new tone and pace of the White House and flavored it with his own brand of Yankee circumspection ("Sound as a dollar," as his 82-year-old father says. "Square as a brick"). Hard at work by 7:30 every morning, Adams takes due note of any of his staff who might come in a few minutes late ("Miss So-and-So," he snapped to a girl who was attending a presidential staff meeting, "you were late three mornings this week!"). Papers shoot into his office and out as fast as his bedeviled secretaries...
...Town began, through CBS's courageous suggestion to Serling, as a thinly veiled dramatization of the Till case. A précis of Serling's first effort was rejected by all but one of the sponsors; they would not lend their brand names or money to a treatment of racism that might prejudice Southern customers against their products...
...rival editor. Ebullient, egocentric, suave and unflaggingly dynamic, Herbert Bayard Swope stood splendidly apart in an era of splendid individualists. As reporter, foreign correspondent and executive editor on the famed New York World-Joseph Pulitzer's proudest monument-Swope gave a glamorous flair to the incisive, personalized brand of U.S. journalism that flourished before World War I and stretched into...
...World's publisher on his father's death in 1911, Swope knocked out a few partitions to make himself a suitably imposing office, brought in the first rugs ever seen on the twelfth floor of the World building on Park Row, and hung on the door a brand-new title of his own devising: Executive Editor...