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...Hawaii would be from their state, which barely qualified for its present number of seats under the last population apportionment. Said Massachusetts Republican Donald Nicholson: "We will elect somebody in Hawaii or Alaska to represent my state." Chimed in South Carolina's W.J.B. (for William Jennings Bryan) Dorn: "Is it not true that if our friend from Massachusetts were to lose his seat ... he will lose it to a man whom we have deported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Loud & Low | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

That Little Bag. The more talk there was of peanuts, the more northern big-city Democrats began to come unstuck from the 90%-for-$1.25 deal. Brooklyn Democrat Abraham Multer found himself right alongside Brooklyn Republican Francis Dorn in bewailing the high price of peanuts at Ebbets Field: "There are just about twelve peanuts in that little peanut bag for which you pay 10?" Georgia's Forrester replied: "I thought we had come to an understanding with you Brooklyn people that you would pay us 10? a bag for peanuts and we would continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Political Peanuts | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...General Walter Dorn-berger-Translated by James Cleugh and Geoffrey Halllday-Viking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How Not to Make a Weapon | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...movie about sex, sadism and misery in the pre-World War II Army, because the film is "derogatory to a brother service." The Navy took this solicitous stand despite the fact that the Army-Air Force Motion Picture Service had already approved the movie. Said Brigadier General Frank Dorn, the Army's deputy chief of information: "The general reaction at the end is good for the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: From Somewhere to Fraternity | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...Toole a Yiddish-speaking Irishman, whose Brooklyn district was carved into a new shape last year by the Republican state legislature. In the new district, which gerrymanders through Brooklyn taking in some safe G.O.P. territory, the veteran O'Toole (eight terms) lost to Republican Lawyer Francis E. Dorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Make-Up of the 83rd | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

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