Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indicted last week by a federal grand jury in Scranton, Pa., on charges of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Government: Pennsylvania's longtime (1945-47, 1949-56) Democratic Representative (and chairman of Philadelphia's Democratic Committee) William J. Green Jr., 46, and former Democratic Representative (1945-47) Herbert J. McGlinchey, 52 (who ran unsuccessfully last month for re-election against Republican Hugh Scott), as well as five Pennsylvania contractors. The indictment against Green charged that he received $10,000 and realized an extra $20,000 in insurance commissions from the contractors, and, as a member of the Armed...
...stage was set for the kind of political show that sobersided Canada seldom allows itself. Ottawa's Coliseum was decked out with flags, bunting and flashing red, green and yellow lights. More than 1,200 Progressive Conservative delegates converged on the capital from all over Canada to nominate a new leader at the party's first national convention since 1948. Even those who could not attend in person could watch from afar; for the first time, TV cameras were on hand to broadcast the proceedings and let all Canadians see the choosing of the man who will...
...young park was sad." In the park things become animals, and animals people, and the young park becomes a person, Young Park. Even the automobile club gets mislocated in the zoo. All because the poet becomes the park, and believes in it. "At night, when everything is yellow and green,/You too can come alive/If you believe in me." Mr. Koch does not describe or persuade, and his poem is not a bunch of well-behaved metaphors gathered around something that was once somebody's idea. He is making a new place where you might want to be; and that...
...Stingiest Man in Town (Dec. 23, 9 p.m., NBC) will be Alcoa Hour's first 90-minute musicolorcast. Basil Rathbone as a syncopated Scrooge, plus Singers Vic Damone, Patrice Munsel, Martyn Green, Robert Weede and other un-Dickensian characters...
Johnson and Sam Rayburn have declined to serve on the "20-man" Democratic Advisory Committee and the eight persons who already have accepted posts include only three legislators, Senators Humphrey and Kefauver and Congresswoman Edith Green of Oregon. Consequently, Paul Butler's hope that powerful members of Congress would join seems to have been overly optimistic, if not naive, for in intent and organization the group was both an insult and a threat to Johnson, Rayburn...