Word: glens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the first meeting ended Idaho's tent-show Senator Glen Taylor had yodeled and played his guitar, and Congressman Homer Angell of Oregon had urged the elders "not to despair or grow weary." But Dr. Townsend said not a word. He sat on the platform, twiddling his thumbs...
...Republican Whip Kenneth Wherry tried to get an agreement on a time to vote. But Oregon's dapper New Dealing Republican Wayne Morse, who had opposed the Taft-Hartley bill from the beginning, objected to any closing of debate. Republican Morse joined with Democrats Claude Pepper, Harley Kilgore, Glen Taylor to filibuster...
Communists & Cough Drops. At 3:10 p.m. Florida's glib, long-nosed Claude Pepper began to speak. Between interruptions, he droned on until 6:50 p.m. Idaho's Glen Taylor, the Singing Cowboy, took the stage. He went into a routine of detailed statistical exposition, interspersed with sallies at Senators, the price of autos and the difficulties of living in a truck. He told a yarn about a Communist he worked with in a war plant in 1944. It took about 500 words and several minutes for Taylor to reach the point: ''The Communist would...
...Cowboy Glen munched a cough drop, took a sip of water and rambled on about how he once ate jack rabbits, and about the iniquities of Wall Street...
...same orchestra had opened in New York's suburban Glen Island Casino eight years before, but since then it had almost doubled in size. Its leader, husky, shy Gordon Lee ("Tex") Beneke, had never wanted to lead a band, but now he had the biggest and most expensive dance band in the land...