Word: distress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much of the bitterness is directed at Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson himself. Says Pennsylvania's Democratic State Chairman Joseph Barr: "I see great danger and distress signals in the spectacle of a man like Lyndon Johnson trying to lead the Democratic Party away from its traditional principles." Says Oregon's Governor Robert Holmes: "The Democratic Party goes forward when it remembers it is a liberal party, and I could wish Senator Johnson would remember that our party dares be the liberal voice of America." Says Colorado's influential Eugene Cervi, editor and publisher of Germ...
Next day the network offered its "sincere apologies for any personal distress resulting from this telecast," scrapped kinescopes that would have carried the interview to eleven of the 79 stations handling the show, gave Parker and Hamilton an offer-which they scorned-of equal time on Wallace's show. Parker and Hamilton, shrewd cops with good records (whose names are familiar to viewers of Jack Webb's Dragnet), filed complaints of criminal libel against Cohen and his TV hosts both in Los Angeles and Manhattan. Parker announced that he would sue all concerned, including sponsor Philip Morris. Also...
...known the answer long before. Throughout the hearings he ate little, often showed up in the Senate chamber disarrayed and unsteady of voice. Following the Senate's condemnation, many of his colleagues ignored him, and his close friends could sense that he was in deep emotional distress...
...Gilbert's distress, the lowly singing commercial-once denounced by Herbert Hoover, and banned from the air "in the public interest" by Detroit's WWF -now commands the talents of bigger names than his. Last month Frank (Guys and Dolls) Loesser entered the jingle-writing lists with a new firm, Frank Productions Inc., which boasts a creative stable dwarfing the credits of any Broadway musical: Hoagy (Stardust) Carmichael, Vernon (April in Paris) Duke, Harold (Fanny) Rome and, for lyrics alone, Ogden Nash. On his heels came Raymond Scott, composer of Lucky Strike's Be Happy, Go Lucky...
Flanders came out against budget cuts at the expense of foreign aid. "If we can be of assistance anywhere at any time to nations in distress," he asserted, "$200 million is a small amount." He did feel, however, that the "people can get very much more for their money than they're getting...