Word: clovers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under an escape clause in the 1951 Reciprocal Trade Agreements Extension Act, U.S. industries that feel themselves injured or threatened by increased foreign imports may appeal for relief through higher tariffs. With a single exception (alsike-clover seed from Canada), President Eisenhower has consistently rejected such appeals in favor of the nation's overriding interest in freer trade...
...awfully sorry," he murmurs casually, "but I don't have anything smaller." It works. It works again with an expensive tailor and again at a fashionable club. Reporters rush to interview the "vest-pocket millionaire." Heiresses of ancient lineage come to squeal like pigs in clover and an old friend shows up with a "sure thing"-a gold mine guaranteed to make millions later for thousands now. It all moves along amusingly-until the hero discovers that he has lost his million-pound note...
Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover, and a skit spoofing Gilbert & Sullivan (and possibly E. Power Biggs) entitled The Organist Who Never, Never Lost a Chord...
Compliments from fellow writers are piled like clover on the jacket of Poet Randall Jarrell's first novel, Pictures from an Institution. "While busy at his mighty task, how gay he seems; how gay we are as we look on! How can we ever thank him?" asks Poetess Marianne Moore. "Immense fun to read," says Critic David Daiches. "A sparkling, damnably clever, wicked piece of work." "I am starting a fan club," bubbles Richard P. (7½ Cents) Bissell...
...hearty, heavy (200 Ibs.) insurance man from Cleveland, Bender is remembered by televiewers as the man ringing a bell and singing I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover during the demonstrations for Robert A. Taft at the G.O.P. national conventions in 1948 and 1952. A member of the party's conservative wing, Bender said he regards the Senate seat he is seeking as "a special trust" because it was held by Taft. Elected to Congress seven times (six at large and once from the 23rd District), Bender has been a good vote-getter throughout Ohio, is particularly...