Word: fife
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the continuing Senate debate on civil rights came a powerful, persuasive, familiar third force. For a fortnight the session's bitterest battle had raged between polar opposites-Georgia's Richard Brevard Russell and his determined Southerners, Senate Republican Leader William Fife Knowland and his coalition of Republicans and Democratic liberals. Last week, with the pressures carefully remeasured, the crosscurrents analyzed, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson calculated that it was time to come out of the wings and exercise his superb cloakroom skill in the name of moderation. Johnson's goal: enactment of a compromise civil rights bill...
...million of the $3.8 billion appropriation sought by the Administration. Moreover, it even approved the President's request for an economic-development fund of indefinite duration, thus setting a new pattern for economic development funds (TIME, June 3). When the measure reached the Senate, both Minority Leader William Fife Knowland and Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson quickly endorsed it. Said Texan Johnson: "This is the kind of philosophy that will get other nations off their backs-and off our taxpayers' backs...
...reunioners can watch the Phi Beta Kappa fife-and-drum parade and exercises at 11:00 in Sanders Theatre. In the afternoon, beginning at 12:05, is the traditional Memorial Service for deceased class members...
...excuse for sidestepping the issue. But rather than dodge, Nixon has dived head-on into the battle, and in the process has been more than willing to cut loose whatever conservative Republican ties he had. Waiting to pick up what Nixon casts off is a conservative champion named William Fife Knowland, the Old Guard's candidate for President in 1960. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Nixon on the Line and Knowland at the Ready...
...candidate: Senate Republican Leader William Fife Knowland, who would like to spring from California's governorship (over Incumbent Goodwin Knight's dead body) to the White House-but, governorship or no, is available...