Word: congresswoman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower last week announced that he will nominate Connecticut's former Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce as U.S. Ambassador to Italy. She will be the first woman ever appointed to a top U.S. Embassy, and the first woman ambassador ever appointed to Rome from any nation...
...successful author and playwright (The Women, Kiss the Boys Goodbye, Margin for Error). In her first campaign she showed a sureness of political touch and a flair for the dramatic political phrase which delighted her audiences, and got her elected. When she arrived in Washington as a freshman Congresswoman, she was appointed to the important House Military Affairs Committee. During the term she kept up a sharp, running attack on the New Deal, voted a prolabor, pro-civil-rights record, and went home in 1944 to win reelection...
...hazing season last week at Columbia University, when kidnaping freshmen becomes a popular extracurricular activity, Freshman H. Gordon Butler, 20, of East Providence, R.I., unwittingly set something of a record. One afternoon, a group of sophomores, including Peter Douglas, 19-year-old son of Actor Melvyn Douglas and ex-Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas, dragged Butler to a car and drove him down to the Douglas apartment on Park Avenue. They bound his hands, taped his mouth, wrapped his face and head with bandages, and whisked him off to La Guardia airport. There they plunked him on a plane, strapped...
Swinging into its seventh season, the Law School Forum will present three congressmen and one congresswoman tomorrow night to debate the big issue of 1952: Mr. President. The program will begin at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theatre...
Last week the convention assembled in Hartford. Former Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce put on a vigorous campaign for the nomination, but the state's Republican leaders were determined to have Wall Street Banker Prescott Bush, and their will was done...