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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Y/iST C) JAMES M. NOBLE...
...most obvious choice to take over, as Acting Majority Leader, was Kentucky's Senator Earle C. Clements, the Democratic whip, who, like Johnson, has the invaluable knack of staying on good terms with all shades of Democratic Senate factionalism. Clements is a quiet, industrious, somewhat ponderous behind-the-scenes operator-but he has yet to demonstrate that he can fill the big Senate shoes of Lyndon Johnson...
...C. Anderson and Harold W. Hermann of Minneapolis made a plea, in the A.M.A. Journal, for doctors to report extremely rare cases of leukemia in identical twins to medical groups involved in leukemia research. Purpose of the request: to learn more about hereditary factors in the disease by studying its effect on two humans coming from the same ovum...
Have Another Drink. One punch Carter struck was against a plan to build a new railroad terminal for Fort Worth that was no better than Dallas'. Carter stoutly opposed the plan, one evening got a call from Railroad Magnate Matthew C. Brush in New York, who said: "Well, we've just voted to build your damn Union Station. We're going to put up $11 million for the biggest station and shops and terminal in the Southwest. And now we're all drinking to your health. What do you say about that?" Amon Carter promptly replied...
...time, rented a typewriter for 50? a month, and had business cards printed that said: "The Texas Advertising and Manufacturing Co." But his most impressive piece of business equipment was a $2,000 diamond ring, which was easy to pawn to finance new ventures. Two budding newspaper publishers, D. C. McCaleb and A. G. Dawson, who were starting the Fort Worth Star in the city, hired Carter as their ad manager. He soon bought out the partners and borrowed enough money to buy out the Star's opposition, the Telegram...