Word: drew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Green Bay. Stevenson made his first strictly political appearance and speech of the season at the Wisconsin State Democratic Convention in Green Bay. He seemed uncomfortably restrained, perhaps because he wanted to abstain from outright campaigning until his formal announcement next month. He did no glad-handing and he drew no cheers from the small crowd waiting in the rain at Green Bay. At the Northland Hotel he stayed close to his room, did not visit the Stevenson-for-President offices on the floor above...
...close since 1911, the lead seesawed for hours before the Liberal candidate finally slid in front by 562 votes. In the one Quebec riding where the Liberal majority was normal, it was a question whether the appeal of the party or the luster of the candidate's name drew the votes; the Liberal nominee was Jean-Paul St. Laurent, 43, second son of Canada's Quebec-born Prime Minister...
Among newsmen in Havana last week, a tall tale or an outright lie drew the same jeering rejoinder: "Even Drew Pearson wouldn't believe that!" The catch phrase was inspired by a recent seven-day vacation in which, Columnist Pearson explained, he planned to "get away from the incessant drumbeat of American politics . . . into the more romantic bongo drumbeat of Cuban politics...
...Drew Pearson thumped the bongo drums for President Fulgencio Batista too fervently. In return, Havana's leading newspapers and magazines last week were busy thumping Pearson. "If Truman called Drew Pearson a liar," declared Mario Kuchilán in Prensa Libre, "he was being generous." Columnist José Pardo Llada, who once hailed Pearson as an "ideal commentator," wrote in Diario National: "Our illustrious friend Drew Pearson has defrauded us." So fulsome was Pearson's praise for the Batista regime that even a Batista booster, Diario National's Luis Manuel Martinez, objected. He called Pearson a "gringo...
...take care of her professional commitments and a profitable real-estate sideline, Diana and her husband formed Diana Dors Ltd. Soon, because she drew ?60 weekly for tax-free "business expenses," Diana became an issue in Commons. Conservative M.P. Henry Price gravely asked, "Do you not feel that figures of that kind should be closely scrutinized...