Word: corns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Planted in front of Chicago's television cameras, Tennessee's Governor Frank Clement, 37, took some blunt battering from usually kid-gloved Interviewer Norman Ross. Asked if he enlisted in the Army in World War II to help his political career, the corn-shucking 1956 Democratic keynoter shucked no corn. "Yes. sir," he said, "I thought it would help...
Following this line, Pratt announced that "my specialty is corn," and proceeded to give an illustrated eight-point talk on the way to raise $82.5 million. Pratt cited a formula indicating how much people should give: (the prospect's largest single gift) times 2 times 3 (years...
...brightest lights of U.S. business. Among the rebelling foundation trustees-appointed by R. H. Kress himself-are New York Stock Exchange President G. Keith Funston; Frank M. Folsom, executive committee chairman of Radio Corp. of America; and Harold H. Helm, board chairman of Manhattan's Chemical Corn Exchange Bank...
...losses at $25 to $30 million, hoped that the remaining 25% would not be lost. The effect was quickly felt in scanty offerings, high prices at fresh-vegetable counters in the North and East. In January a year ago, 1,787 railroad carloads of Florida-grown fresh beans, spinach, corn, new potatoes, tomatoes and other vegetables moved to market. Last month the flow was 736 carloads...
...banquet for Britain's M.P.s in the House of Commons dining hall, London's top-ranking master barber (the guild boss of hairdressers, perfumers and wigmakers) laid all about him with cutting comments on the hair styles of leading politicians, who often look, cried he, "like corn crakes [a short-billed rail] in a gale!" Of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (see FOREIGN NEWS): "He ruins the whole effect by wings of hair sticking out on either side of his face and by a mustache that one would hardly call elegant." Of Laborites Hugh Gaitskell and Aneurin Bevan: "Quite...