Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, after a night of consultation with his lawyer and Manhattan Pressagent Carl Byoir, Hughes turned up at the hearing room with a fat bundle of notes in his pocket. He began reading: "Senator Brewster's story is a pack of lies and I can tear it to pieces if I am allowed to cross-examine." Senator Ferguson, his patience wearing thin, turned to the press table and said, sotto voce: "He's a hard man to be nice...
...Mexico's Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson. Like Hannegan, Clint Anderson was not feeling up to snuff. Suffering from diabetes, he had doubled his insulin treatments under pressure of his Cabinet job. His real ambition is to go to the Senate if New Mexico's Carl Hatch decides not to run again next year. But this week Clint Anderson was off for Hawaii, where he will spend the next few weeks resting up and thinking it over with Bob Hannegan at Ed Pauley's fancy Cocoanut Island hideaway...
...resents being called a cynic: "Cynics disbelieve real things; I disbelieve phonies." He claims he is working roughly along the lines of Will Rogers, except that he uses a piano instead of a rope. "The people . . . are just like me. ... I don't want to talk like Carl Sandburg, but I like the people...
...deadline (the hour of Robert Lincoln's death) approached, 23 Lincoln scholars and members of the Library staff left a banquet hall and walked solemnly into a room in the Library annex. Among them was white-thatched Lincoln Historian Carl Sandburg, who had spent part of the evening singing songs of the Lincoln period to his colleagues. Steel doors swung open, and the collection, 194 black-backed volumes, stood revealed...
...Light on Lincoln (Sat. 3:30 p.m., CBS). A CBS Documentary Unit broadcast based on the unsealing (21 years after the death of Robert Todd Lincoln) of Lincoln's state papers. Speakers: Carl Sandburg; Illinois State Historian Jay Monaghan; University of Illinois Professor J. G. Randall; Director of the Chicago Historical Society Paul M. Angle; and Librarian of Congress Luther Evans...