Word: haling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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House Democratic Whip Hale Boggs was fishing in the Gulf of Mexico when an Air Force plane flew over his boat and dropped into the water a plastic bottle attached to a red flag. The message in the bottle told Boggs to phone the White House. His boat pulled over to a nearby offshore oil rig. The Congressman donned a life jacket, swung by rope to a spindly ladder, and climbed 150 feet to the rig's platform, where a helicopter was awaiting him. At an airbase on the mainland, they crammed Boggs into a flight suit, strapped...
...Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, had taken umbrage at the way the Senate had been upping his antes on a supplemental appropriations bill. Democratic leaders were desperate by this time. President Kennedy, off on the campaign trail, pleaded with Cannon by telephone; no dice. Democratic Whip Hale Boggs, emerging from a meeting, growled: "I feel like punching somebody in the nose." That bill was stymied, but Cannon was not through. When the final appropriations bill came to the House floor late last
...major method is the careful reading of the "second-rate" literature of the period, which he rightly believes is more likely to yield a reliable impression of the period's deepest social concerns than would its high art. So the popular novels and writings of William Wirt, Simms, Sarah Hale (of Godey's Lady's Book) and a great many others are subjected to a close scrutiny the likes of which their poor authors probably never counted on. One reason this method is so productive is that the authors were by and large men and women engaged in public affairs...
...things moving again? Part of the answer lies with the Democratic leadership on the Hill. Senate Leader Mike Mansfield is a fine gentlemanly fellow-maybe too much so for the hard political demands of his job. As for the House leaders-Speaker John McCormack. Carl Albert and Whip Hale Boggs&$151;they have yet to prove that they can even count noses before the vote comes...
Died. Reese Hale Taylor, 61, strapping, energetic president of Union Oil Co., one of the big independents, which he directed for 23 years of bounding growth (from $78.1 million to $447.4 million annual volume), tireless man about California, where he was vice president of the Hollywood Bowl Association, former president of Santa Anita race track, a tennis promoter, university and hospital trustee; of acute pancreatitis; in Los Angeles...