Word: brookes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Affront. He supplied his own answer: Powell's great expansion of committee staff and committee travel. Ash brook said that before Powell, the staff had consisted of four Republicans and twelve Democrats. Now it had "35 or 40" Democrats and just two Republicans. At the same time, he said, the Republicans were "harassed" with "persistent demands" that they give up their minority suite. And, although the committee "would seem to have less reason to travel than most other committees," it had become "one of the most freely traveling groups in the entire Congress." About half of that travel, said...
...Thomson," reported London's Sunday Express stiffly, had been to Moscow and had talked to the Soviet Premier. That was about all Lord Beaver-brook's Express cared to report. The Sunday Observer and the Sunday Telegraph were equally vague, identifying Thomson merely as "the Canadian newspaper proprietor." Only in the London Sunday Times did Thomson get the full treatment, and a little more besides. No wonder. The Sunday Times is Roy Thomson's own paper...
...Senate, Republicans put up Vermont's George Aiken for president pro tempore. In nominating Aiken, G.O.P. Leader Everett Dirksen noted that the Vermonter's middle name is David. Cried Ev: "I am confident that he will be like his namesake, David of old, who reached into the brook of Elah, and there found smooth stones for his slingshot with which to humble Goliath. In the same spirit, George Aiken will reach into the brook...
...ROBERT BROOK...
Whatever their approach, truly original ads are so few that they are quickly copied. The bulk of menthol cigarette ads-a boy, a girl (shoeless) and a babbling brook-are virtually indistinguishable. Often, too. the less expensive or distinctive a product is, the more pretentiously it is advertised-which leads admen to argue whether it is good salesmanship to make a snob appeal for a non-snob product. The most notable voice raised in opposition is that of Fairfax Cone of Chicago's Foote, Cone & Belding agency, who argues that an ad should come as close as possible...