Word: congresswoman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Look had not made up the "quotations." It had borrowed them from the Congressional Record, where they were inserted last January by Republican Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton of Ohio. Mrs. Bolton had gotten them from a friend, who had heard them on a broadcast by Radio Commentator Galen Drake. Drake couldn't remember where he had picked them up. One possibility: the Royle Forum, house organ of a New Jersey machinery manufacturer. (Said Forum Editor Richard Cook, who printed them without checking their authenticity: "One thing consoles me. I am now part of the Lincoln legend, and will live...
...Republican upsurge of 1946, Congresswoman Douglas herself was beaten. Douglas made up his mind to go after the governorship, an idea that struck horror into the ranks of the regulars. They had seen enough of Douglas' drawing power even in the 1942 campaign to know that he would be a strong candidate and they desperately needed one. But the thought of state patronage in the hands of a man who didn't appreciate the delicate and desperate needs of party men sent chills up every right-thinking wardheeler's spine. After weeks of haggling indecision, Cook County...