Word: grant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...governor, gave no reason, left an impression that his health was poor. Incautiously he backed lackluster Harvey Dickerson, 53, Nevada attorney general and a habitual also-ran, for the governor's nomination, unabashedly poured an estimated $75,000 into Dickerson's campaign. When enterprising Dickerson Opponent Grant Sawyer, Elko County district attorney, cried that Cord was buying the governor's mansion just as he had bought corporations, tight-lipped Politician Cord ignored the charge. The impression took root; by last week Nevadans had decided they did not like Cord. Underdog Sawyer, 39, handily...
Indiscreet. Gary Grant dispensing yachts and yacht-ta-ta to Ingrid Bergman, in a funny, freewheeling version of Broadway's Kind Sir (TIME, July...
...went before a joint session of the state legislature in the colonnaded capitol in Little Rock with the air of a man who was sure that things were going his way. He had called the legislators into special session to pass a set of carefully lawyered bills designed to grant him sweeping new powers-to close down schools threatened by mob violence or by federal troops sent to secure integration, to transfer state funds from any closed school to any new segregated private schools, to provide, a general kickoff appropriation of $100,000-and he knew the legislators were with...
Indiscreet. Gary Grant dispensing yachts and yacht-ta-ta to Ingrid Bergman, in a funny, freewheeling version of Broadway's Kind Sir (TIME, July...
...week Randy Phillips himself got swatted. He not only lost a court fight over his campaign to win a seat on the Pennsylvania Railroad's board but also took a tongue lashing from Federal Judge C. William Kraft Jr., who said that Phillips' "unclean hands bar the grant of any equitable relief...