Word: forthe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Appointed, soon after South Dakota's Republican Senator Francis Case told of a $2,500 campaign-contribution offer from a natural-gas lobbyist, a Special Senate Committee worked on and off (mostly off) for 14 months, interviewed 146 witnesses, appealed to Senators, press and public to come forth with specific cases of crooked lobbying. Last week the committee, headed by Arkansas Democrat John McClellan, issued its report, reached one major conclusion: "One of the striking circumstances in the investigations has been the lack of specific complaints, or specific facts or information, concerning attempts to influence any member...
...months passed it became obvious that the Pasadena idea was not working out. The staff had to plane back and forth across the continent so much that they began calling the foundation the "Fund for the Advancement of Aviation." To make matters worse, Hoffman infuriated Henry Ford II by inadvertently leaking to the press that the Ford Motor Co. might put some of its Ford stock on the market. Finally, at President Eisenhower's first inauguration, Ford told Hoffman: "This is the end, Paul." A month later the trustees also rose against Hoffman, elected Rowan Gaither president and ordered...
...time he put forth his constitution last year, Colonel Nasser indicated that the sort of representative assembly he had in mind would be similar to the organ through which Portugal's Premier
McClellan beat McMath by 37,000 votes and returned to Washington. It had taken him years, but he was finally able to live up to the code set forth by the preacher of his boyhood days: to know himself, control himself, and deny himself. John McClellan would be a lesser man if he had never had problems. He is the stronger for overcoming them. His conduct at the labor-investigating committee shows...
...lost none of his amazing powers of draftsmanship nor his virtuoso ability to improvise on a theme until it is obedient to his will. With age, Picasso becomes more impatient. His own limitations-an insensibility to the sensual qualities of paint, a violence and haste in execution-stand forth more clearly. In Woman by a Window, Picasso, who uses boat paint "or whatever they give me," worked over the area of the model's shoulders with an intensity that has made a bulge in the canvas, but he has barely sketched in the right side of the canvas...