Word: filles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stevenson's first day at home in Libertyville, Ill. was thoroughly political. He got a fill-in on recent Democratic developments from National Committee Chairman Steve Mitchell, and made a pair of well-publicized phone calls to tell Senate Minority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Minority Leader Sam Rayburn that he was "mighty proud" of the party's record in the 83rd Congress. (One of his first acts on arriving in New York had been to call up Harry Truman in Independence. ) Mostly Adlai planned to spend his time resting, until Sept. 14-15, when Democratic bigwigs will...
Start at Home. Mansure found plenty of room to start economizing in his own department, which manages more than 5,000 Government buildings, buys $430 million worth of supplies yearly for federal agencies, stores enough records to fill seven Pentagon buildings, and maintains the nation's $4 billion stockpile of critical defense materials, including feathers, sapphires, opium, castor oil and manganese. Mansure, whose agency buys $60 million worth of office supplies yearly, has already gone a long way toward trimming waste by standardizing purchases. Where GSA formerly bought 25 different chair styles, it now buys only one; instead...
Such was the interest, in Ohio and throughout the U.S., in selection of a man to fill Robert A. Taft's Senate seat. The interest was heightened because Democrat Lausche, 57, an emotional man some times given to tears, rebuked anyone who tried to discuss the subject with him. Always deliberate about appointments, Lausche seemed likely to wait until almost everyone in Ohio was mentioned...
...They have built benches, desks, bunks and tables, have lined the ranch-house walls with book cases, installed cupboards, coat racks and window screens. They have cut and hauled several cords of wood, started clearing a ski trail, piled, loaded and sold 4,000 bales of hay to help fill up the school's near-empty coffers. Meanwhile, they have also done their housework-cooking, cleaning and making beds...
...Watering Can, Degas' Four Dancers, Picasso's Family of Saltimbanques), housed their collection in a five-story mansion off Fifth Avenue, later lent exhibits to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Chicago's Art Institute and Washington's National Gallery, where some 170 Dale paintings now fill nine rooms, hang in twelve others. Always a believer in noblesse oblige, Patroness Dale once discarded her town car because its roof left the chauffeur exposed, designed a $20,000 Belgian-made Minerva cabriolet with a sliding metal top that could be pulled over the driver's seat...