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...have plenty of alternate suggestions. On the Democratic side, he could think of half a dozen who fit the bill: Truman, Eisenhower (political affiliation unknown), Chief Justice Vinson, Senators Fulbright or Kefauver, or Governor G. Mennen Williams of Michigan ("who is coming up fast"). On the Republican side: Senators Saltonstall, Lodge, Duff, Ives, Morse, Aiken, or Governor Thomas Dewey...
...expedition is partially financed by Smith's Fulbright grant to do research on the art of the Middle Kingdom--about 2,000 to 1,800 B. C. Last year at Harvard he gave the first course on Egyptian art in any American college...
...White House, quipped Barkley, "the President has brought a piece of the White House to me." The Senate roared, and Harry Truman cracked back: "I'm in pretty good health yet." Then the President shook hands all around, not overlooking such of his current tormentors as Bill Fulbright (see Investigations) and Joe McCarthy, said feelingly, "I wish I was back with you," and marched out to standing applause...
...lent Young about $135,000 during one period in question. During that period, Young's own insurance business brought him only $1,900, but he bought-in addition to the mink coat-a $52,000 house and pieces of several business deals. Snapped Arkansas' J. William Fulbright, chairman of the investigating subcommittee: "You don't expect this committee to believe that just out of a clear sky you suddenly fell in love with Mr. Young, do you? Do you think we are so naive that we think you did it just because you liked the color...
There was, for example, one incomprehensible deal involving what he called "one-half interest in the down payment on the option of $100,000." Then he mentioned an outfit called the Rialb Corp. "What is that?" asked Fulbright. "That," said Rosenbaum pleasantly, "is Blair spelled backwards." Fulbright, with a gesture that got to be common during the week, shut off the witness and exclaimed: "It's too complicated for us ... It's beyond my comprehension...