Word: fulbrighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Knowland thought he knew where to begin the slowdown, went back to the Capitol to take aim on a Democratic special: the $1 billion Community Facilities bill designed to pump 3½% loans into worthy town and city public-works projects, which Banking and Currency Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright had reported onto the Senate floor for speedy action. Before the day was done, stolid Bill Knowland's slowdown had rolled into a fast-moving Republican revolt against the well-laid plans of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson...
Mezzo-Soprano Hoffman held on to her Manhattan bar job while she took singing lessons. In 1951 she won a Fulbright scholarship to study opera in Italy, became a member first of the Zurich Stadt-theater, later of the Stuttgart Staatsoper. In her seven years in Europe. Grace has appeared at La Scala, Covent Garden. Florence. Bayreuth. With her 2½-octave range she has sung 20-odd roles, including Carmen. Gluck's Orpheus, Dora-bella in Mozart's Cosí fan Tutte, Ulrica in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, plus mezzo and contralto parts...
Deepfreeze Artist. The result was a shouting, table-pounding committee session, with Democrats Douglas and Fulbright trading insults. Fulbright, cried Douglas, had shoved his bill into a "stacked" subcommittee, where "the guillotine would fall, its head would be chopped off. [Fulbright] is a Deepfreeze artist." Fulbright insisted that his bill was merely a "very small amendment" to an already existing program. Shouted Douglas: "Two billions may seem small to the Senator from Arkansas, but it seems rather large to the Senator from Illinois." Retorted Fulbright, dragging in the massive embezzlements uncovered in Illinois' Republican state administration...
...result of the whole fracas was that not even Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson's priority order was enough to get Fulbright's bill out of committee without a humiliating compromise. By an 8-to-5 vote, the committee rammed down Fulbright's throat a resolution making area assistance. Douglas-Payne style, the first order of business after the Fulbright measure...
...soda fountain. After his mother's death, in 1920 he ambled onto the University of Arkansas, where he was immensely popular and immensely relaxed. "I guess all the boys were lazy," recalls a college chum, "but Ed was more than ordinary lazy." Arkansas' U.S. Senator James William Fulbright, then a lowerclassman and later president of the university, gives Ed full marks as a storyteller and cartoonist. Beyond that, Stone seemed content to remain a lady's man (despite his baggy-kneed appearance) and to join the boys in downing mountain dew. Finally the spinster head...