Word: brewster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patterson, who used to write about me in such scathing terms that even the very frank TIME Magazine had to interpret them with dots and dashes ... Sometimes Page I featured headlines about 'the headache boy'-Cissie's description of her ex-son-in-law . . . Today, Senator Brewster of Maine has his offices stacked high with 75,000 reprints of a speech largely taken from Cissie's diatribes against me, which he is mailing to constituents at the taxpayers' expense. People used to ask me why I didn't answer Cissie...
Commissioner Hennock claims no particular experience in her new field. She feels that lack of experience may be all to the good. ("Senator Brewster* wanted an unbiased, fresh viewpoint, away from the industry.") Last week she outlined her approach to the job: "It seems fundamental that in this field-so peculiarly affecting women-the viewpoint of their sex should be presented...
...same day, Taylor was stopped. He read a message from a Mrs. Frances Swadesh, a Manhattan housewife,* who had wired her opinion that the people "can congratulate themselves on having one honest Senator." With that, Maine's Owen Brewster was on his feet. The statement, he said, impugned the integrity of the Senate. Under the rules, Taylor must sit down. He did, and the filibuster was broken. At long last, the bill went to conference, where Senate leaders sternly hammered out a law which met military requirements in almost every respect...
Senator Owen Brewster of Maine got a nibble from Hollywood the day after he made a speech attacking Planemaker...
...year-old Moral Re-Armament movement, and it clicked smoothly along in the well-oiled M.R.A. manner. Statesmen and ex-statesmen from 25 nations (including Italy, Germany and Japan) were there. The cablegram that invited them had been signed by some 51 Congressmen from 40 states (including Senators Barkley, Brewster and Bridges). On the local invitation committee were California's Governor Warren, Los Angeles' Mayor Fletcher Bowron, the University of California's President Robert Sproul, Hollywood's Jimmy Stewart and Joel McCrea. ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman sent warm greetings: "You are giving to the world the ideological...