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...Wyoming, after the death of Republican Keith Thomson, who had just been elected to the U.S. Senate, Wyoming's Democratic Governor John Joseph Hickey resigned from his own office, was appointed by the state's Democratic secretary of state Jack Gage (who succeeded him as Governor) to serve in Thomson's stead for a Senate term of two years. "Thus," said Lawrence, "the majority of the people of Wyoming, who elected a Republican to the United States Senate, have been deprived of a Senator of their own party and even of the chance to elect one until...
...inflation, but does not define how much is tolerable. He hopes that foreign competition and an attack on domestic monopolies and labor featherbedding will help keep wages and prices in line. If they do not, "we should not shrink from selective controls" over such fields as consumer credit, mort gage rates and depreciation allowances -but not necessarily over prices and wages. He is for lower interest rates to spur the economy, for a broader taxation base to pay for the new projects. On the budget: "You run a big surplus to fight inflation; you run a big deficit to fight...
...Vivien Leigh, 47 (Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth); after 20 years of marriage, no children; by decree nisi, in London, where in the same court, on the same day, Joan Plowright, 29, droll, saucer-eyed English actress (A Taste of Honey, The Entertainer), was divorced from Actor Roger Gage, 30, after seven years of marriage, no children. Both actions proceeded with classic Noel Cowardy coolness. Miss Leigh admitting adultery in Ceylon, Sir Laurence admitting adultery with Miss Plowright in London, and Gage admitting adultery in Helsinki. Court costs of the fourway, jet-speed split were charged to Sir Laurence, who intends...
...dirtiest, most contemptible, cowardly dogs that you can conceive." Less than two decades later, the Americans were to prove that estimate badly mistaken. Author Tourtellot's chronicle of Lexington shows that the British, to begin with, were reluctant dragons. Their general back in Boston was lethargic, kindly Thomas Gage, who hoped merely to prevent incidents between his 5,000 bored troops and the restless Boston mobs. The man who refused to give him peace was Samuel Adams, cousin of John, a dumpy, inquisitive politician who had left his job as Boston tax collector when his accounts were found...
...trips he made to raise money, he was jailed for 22 months. His most ambitious moneymaking venture, which gave Novelist Kenneth Roberts the title for his book about Rogers, was to find a northwest passage to the Pacific. But debt, circumstance and such enemies as Gage kept him from searching for the ' overland route that the Lewis & Clark expedition found in 1805. During the American Revolution, he offered his services to General Washington, fought briefly for the British after he was turned down. After the war, in one of U.S. history's more jarring ironies, his name...