Word: closed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mister Sam's stubborn stand left chances for action on presidential disability this session at something close to zero. And that also left the nation's security against chaos-by-disability resting solely upon the Eisenhower-Nixon agreement, which Mister Sam derides, with the prestige he has piled up in 45 years in the House and 13 years as Speaker, as little more than a scrap of paper...
Said Green in the brief: "I believe Judge Murphy is personally prejudiced against me by reason of our long and close political and social relationship and that by reason of his desire to prove his integrity and lack of favoritism, he will not afford me a fair and impartial trial." The prejudice, added Green, arises out of the "many favors I have done for him and the obligations he owes me," e.g., on Judge Murphy's request, Green arranged with the Army to have Murphy's G.I. son transferred from Germany to Paris, plus the fact that...
...million a year. Bowles hung around until 1941, making more money; then he too gave in to the longing for a larger life of public service, headed up the Connecticut OPA, later became Franklin Roosevelt's OPAdministrator. Though apart in business, Benton & Bowles remained a close political team; in 1949 Bowles, then governor of Connecticut, appointed Benton, seasoned by two years as an Assistant Secretary of State, to the U.S. Senate...
...Cleveland Museum of Art, long acknowledged a gem of tasteful beauty in its tree-shaded setting overlooking a lagoon, last week opened a $9,000,000 wing that more than doubled its size. The wing was hung with a raft of surprise acquisitions that clearly put Cleveland close behind the U.S.'s Big Three (New York's Metropolitan, Washington's National Gallery, Boston's Fine Arts). On hand to celebrate Cleveland's happy advance were collectors, art dealers and museum directors from as far away as Korea...
...Madison Square Garden's 1958 track season ended, Manhattan College's Joe Soprano, a 21-year-old senior who had never won a big race, strained home inches in front of St. John's Pete Close to win a fast (2:10.3) 1,000-yd. run. Bates's Rudy Smith supplied another surprise with a fine 1:10.6 for the 600, and Eastern Michigan's Hayes Jones skimmed the 60-yd. high hurdles in a meet record...