Word: haling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic Congressman Henry Reuss asked the White House why the Tennessee Valley Authority last November awarded a $2,637,000 contract for electric generators to Switzerland's Brown Boveri instead of to the low domestic bidder, suburban Milwaukee's Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. Louisiana Democrat T. Hale Boggs, chairman of the House reciprocal-trade-agreements subcommittee, promised a thorough investigation of the B.L.H. award. Asked Boggs: "Does this mean that we invoke the national-defense clause when an industry at home is having some difficulties, to bail 'em out?" But Pennsylvania's Scott stuck...
...rough-edged stubbornness so annoyed Ways & Means committeemen that there was talk of formally expelling him from the hearing room. When Dillon replaced Kearns as the Administration spokesman, the stalled bill glided through the committee with ease. But Kearns has an influential friend on Ways & Means: Louisiana's Hale Boggs, chairman of the foreign-trade subcommittee. "He's not afraid to barge in where angels fear to tread," Boggs admiringly says of Kearns. At week's end Hale Boggs took off for Europe for a ten-day look at Western European trade policies, and with him went...
GARVIN W. HALE...
Coffin, 39, handily won re-election to Congress as predicted. ¶ In the downstate First District, James C. ("Big Jim") Oliver, 63, a onetime G.O.P. isolationist, Coughlinite and Townsendite turned Democrat, defeated eight-term Republican Robert Hale by 3,000 votes to give Democrats two of Maine's three congressional seats. (Hale had squeaked by with only in votes...
Horizon. Says Managing Editor William Harlan Hale, Yaleman, biographer of Horace Greeley, onetime (1934-35) FORTUNE writer: "There appears to be a greater and greater inclination on the part of the public to sample the fruits of civilization. Other magazines fulfill bits and pieces of this hunger, but none devotes itself entirely to the whole vast need." Catering to U.S. cultural hunger comes easily to Horizon. Its parent is the bustling American Heritage Publishing Co. (TIME, Feb. 17), which overhauled the little-known historical quarterly, American Heritage, in 1954. saw it soar as a bright new bimonthly to a circulation...