Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pioneer's failure to circumnavigate the moon reminded at least one British columnist of a quatrain that Poet Edmund Gosse (1849-1928) claimed was written by his housemaid ad found under her mattress: O moon, when I look on thy beautiful face Careering along through the boundries of space The thought has quite frequently come in my mind. If I'll ever gaze on thy glorious behind...
...factors sending the market skyward. There was also realization that lagging earnings can come back fast (see below). Thus, though stocks in historic terms are overpriced (18 times earnings for the industrials), many Wall Streeters are using a method to evaluate them which simply disregards the present. Said Edmund W. Tabell, top market analyst for Walston & Co.: "What an investor must do is take an average of earnings over the past five years [$32 for the industrials], measure it against projected 1959 earnings [now being quoted at a record $40], and come up with something in between. What happens...
Nothing that Republican William Fife Knowland has done yet in his bulldozing effort to take the Governor's seat seems to plow under the omens: that he is in for a fearsome drubbing from Democratic Candidate Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, state attorney general (TIME, Sept. 15). Knowland, who shouldered Governor Goodwin J. Knight aside so that he could run, has suffered a series of campaign reverses, most recently last week when three of the four Hearst papers in California endorsed the Brown candidacy-the first endorsement of a Democratic gubernatorial candidate in more than 30 years. And although "Goodie...
...Alcorn was delayed only by a frantic last-minute call from Maine's Republican Senator Frederick Payne, who insisted that, because both he and Adams had accepted Goldfine gifts, to impute dishonesty by firing Adams would surely beat him in his race for re-election against Democrat Edmund Muskie...
Since populous Southern California has the nation's second largest concentration of Jews, Democrats were delighted. Knowland's front-running opponent, Attorney General Edmund ("Pat") Brown, demanded that Knowland disown responsibility for use of the tract, drew only the surprisingly lame comment: "I don't think I'm called upon to agree or disagree with every piece of material that comes to my attention." All but lost in the uproar was Helen Knowland's plea that she had never known about Kamp's background-although any newspaper reader would remember his association with Gerald...