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Without another word, Fulbright moved that the committee substitute Richards' amendment for Knowland's. Voting with Fulbright for the motion were Republicans Smith, Alexander Wiley and George Aiken, Democrats Walter George, Theodore Green, John Sparkman and Guy Gillette. On record against it went Republicans Knowland, Homer Ferguson, Bourke...
GILLETTE'S TONI division, which started the home-permanent fad, is expanding into cosmetics. First product will be a smear-proof lipstick called "Viv," which Toni will launch with a $5,000,000 ad campaign. Other products to follow: cleansing cream and hand lotion.
That moved West Virginia's Democratic Senator Matthew Neely to remark that Gillette "in effect, told us to go to the birds." The success of this retort inspired Neely to still further heights. He suggested that the Senate borrow from the late Humorist Stephen Leacock:
Later, Iowa's Democratic Senator Guy Gillette told of asking the State Department for help in distinguishing a treaty, which must be ratified by the Senate, from an executive agreement, which does not. The State Department unhelpfully defined a treaty as the kind of agreement which had to be...
Iowa's Senator Guy Gillette, who doesn't touch the stuff himself, followed an old Iowa tradition by blaming it all on "gambling and speculation." Quick as the flash of a powder train, the uproar spread to South America. The Brazilian government, alarmed by the angry murmuring in...