Word: gulps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...filed in for dinner, and more than 700 guests came to dance at the annual congressional reception. During the week, five special messages were packed off to Capitol Hill, while the last decimal points were checked on the sixth and biggest message - the budget (see below). One day Oveta Gulp Hobby clicked in with a bundle of charts and diagrams for the President's message on health, just as Economic Adviser Arthur Burns deposited a stack of data for the annual economic report. More than 175 reporters showed up at the presidential press conference, threw questions that ranged from...
...20th century, journalism is increasingly the path to politics, as the law was in the 19th. The century's most famous journalist-politicians are Clemenceau, Churchill, Lenin and Mussolini. Some others: Italy's Alcide de Gasperi, Texas' Oveta Gulp Hobby, Ohio's Warren Harding, Brazil's President Café Filho, Britain's Richard Grossman, Illinois' Frank Knox, Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and Blair Moody, Washington state's Warren Magnuson, South Dakota's Francis Case, Oklahoma's Mike Monroney, Idaho's Henry Dworshak, Louisiana's Edward Hebert...
...largely with his own and his brothers' money, two private organizations to stimulate Latin America, one for technical assistance, the other to supply venture capital (mostly for agricultural enterprises). These operations served as pilot plants for the Point Four program. Having helped Ike and HEW Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby reorganize the Government's newest Cabinet department, Rockefeller was ready for a broader assignment. Ike gave it to him, directing him to help the U.S. "seek to join with all peoples in a common effort to achieve and sustain the basic essentials of human dignity...
...this, plus a dozen big musical sequences, makes Star a mighty long gulp of champagne; but, like champagne, it is hard to refuse. Simply in the writing, for instance, there is a sureness rare in musicomedy librettos-and no wonder: Poetess Dorothy Parker worked on the 1937 script, and Playwright Moss Hart had that to draw on for this one. There is some fine Hollywood off-camera stuff: the great star being fastidious about his amours ("Too young. I had a very young week last week"); the little nobody taking her screen test ("Cut!" the director bellows in horror...
Married. Ensign William P. Hobby Jr., U.S.N.R., 22, son of Texas' ex-Governor William Hobby and Oveta Gulp Hobby, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; and Diana Stallings, 23, daughter of Playwright Laurence (What Price Glory) Stallings; in Blanche...