Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Assessing the political aftermath of Little Rock, Democrats last week saw small humor in Chicago Daily News Columnist Jack Mabley's new word definition. Federal bayonets in Arkansas might have cut away from the Republicans those Eisenhower Democrats who last year helped Ike win Texas, Louisiana, Florida and Tennessee-and might have skewered hopes of a Republican Southern wing. But the Democratic Party was in far worse shape. The Little Rock crisis crumbled the shaky foundation of compromise which had underlain Adlai Stevenson's 1956 campaign and the Democratic record in the first session of the 85th Congress...
...Estes Kefauver, who had voted in Congress for a watered-down civil rights bill on which both North and South could agree. Chief architect and proud father of the compromise was Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas, who last week drew the venom of Fair Dealing Columnist Tom Stokes: "It was his aim to get a bill weak enough to keep his Southern colleagues from staging one of those filibusters that show the most nauseating side of the Dixie element that controls the Democratic Party in Congress ... a fraud." Eisenhower Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell, speaking to a Maine...
Wearing a hurt look and sounding indignant, pugnacious Joe Curran, 55, president of the National Maritime Union, sued acid-tongued Columnist Westbrook Pegler for $550,000, claiming that a union leader's reputation is damaged when he is characterized as a "racketeer," "Communist...
...Miller's only jobs before going to the Enquirer as a full-fledged columnist at 19 were as a part-time office boy at 20th Century-Fox's Manhattan offices and as a hired hand for a Broadway pressagent. He explains that his journalistic training consisted mainly of burrowing through public-library files for old columns by Ed Sullivan, Louis Sobol and mostly, Walter Winchell, the grand old man of keyhole journalism...
This schedule leaves Columnist Miller almost no time for relaxation, or for more than a peep at his three-month-old daughter, but he does not chafe at being chained to a golden keyhole. "I consider my work just fabulous," young Miller confides...