Word: grovers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grover Cleveland was a bachelor when he went into office and was later married in the White House...
Schlesinger, along with Theodore C. Blegen of the University of Minnesota, Henry Steele Commanger of Columbia, and U.S. Archivist Wayne Grover, was first called in several months ago to discuss safe-guarding the presidential papers for posterity...
...traditions established by U.S. political history is that the party which elects a President also wins a majority in the Senate. Last exception to that rule was in 1884, when the voters sent Democrat Grover Cleveland to the White House in his first term and left the Senate with a Republican majority. There may well be another exception in 1952, if a Republican is elected President...
...Headsman." Meanwhile, Stevenson's paternal grandfather was busy campaigning against Lincoln. Grandfather Adlai Ewing Stevenson, who walked into Illinois beside a wagon in 1852, was also a lawyer, but an avid Democrat. As Grover Cleveland's First Assistant Postmaster General, he became known as "the headsman" when he swept some 40,000 Republican postmasters off the payroll. In Cleveland's second term, he was Vice President. Lewis Green Stevenson, his son, was Illinois' secretary of state in 1914-16. (Another relative in politics: Vice President Alben Barkley, whose grandmother was Grandfather Adlai's first cousin...
Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh declined with "deep regret" an invitation from New York's Official Greeter Grover Whalen to visit the city on their fall tour. Meanwhile, the duke was busy boning up on Canadian history and making speeches at home (see SCIENCE). He also found time to attend a London Variety Club luncheon at which he was given a life membership certificate (putting him on equal footing with Harry Truman) and hailed as "Brother Barker." As just plain "Papa," he joined his wife on the lawn of Clarence House, their London home, to give photographers...