Word: congresswoman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Albuquerque wound up its 14th annual chamber-music festival last week in the 500-seat Little Theater. The concerts are donated by Banker-Rancher Albert Gallatin Simms, onetime Congressman, in memory of his wife, onetime Congresswoman Ruth Hanna McCormick. Each performance ends with Schumann's Piano Quintet, Op. 44 (it is Sponsor Simms's favorite). This year's guest star: top Violist William Primrose...
...living* and less to politics in the next two years. Certainly he would not need to work hard to stay in front of rival Democrats. His man Butler had won despite the fact that Butler was almost unknown to some leading Democrats. At the dinner Georgia's Congresswoman-elect Iris Blitch rose to praise the new chairman and said: "Mr. Paul-what is your name...
Another Kind of Fix. They also refused to give up hope. After the U.S. Government broadcast their story to the world, the Georgescus redoubled their efforts to rescue their sons. They had help. Ohio's Congresswoman Frances Bolton approached Russia's Andrei Vishinsky at a U.N. reception in New York. She got nowhere. "Oh," said Vishinsky, "Rumania is not my country." But she did not give up, took the Georgescus to see Under Secretary of State Bedell Smith. As a result, a personal letter from President Eisenhower was delivered to Rumanian Prime Minister Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej last February...
...reports that he might become president of the University of Maryland, Harry Truman said, "There is no truth in it," added with finality, "I don't expect to be a college president." Of talk that she would run for Congresswoman from Missouri in 1954, Margaret Truman was "not going to as far as I know. I do hope I can take part in the campaign, but not as a candidate...
...October 1944, when the U.S. wanted to believe that peace could be permanently achieved by the mere setting up of a United Nations organization, Congresswoman Luce gave the problem a fresh appraisal. For the New York Herald Tribune Forum she traced the history-and weak points-of Utopian peace plans, from a Chinese try in 546 B.C. up to the League of Nations. "Those who refuse to remember the past are condemned to repeat it," said she. In May 1945, long before the U.S. got around to a foreign policy of "containing" Communism, she warned: "If we want to stay...