Word: halley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...television star, a skinny, wrathful old man with the fervor of an evangelist. For weeks in 1951, as the Kefauver crime investigation held the U.S. public spellbound before their TV sets, New Hampshire's Senator Charles William Tobey stole scene after scene from Estes Kefauver, Rudolph Halley and the parade of squirming gangsters and sweating politicians. Tobey's righteous anger touched a responsive public nerve. Most of the watching public wanted, as Tobey did. to cut the gangsters down to size. His Yankee homilies, Bible quotations and Latin cliches were from another era, a fresh New Hampshire breeze...
...other party in the race was the Liberals, and their candidate was a child of TV, whose owl-like face and lisping voice became known to millions during the Kefauver hearings. In 1951, running as a Liberal. Rudolph Halley beat both Democratic and Republican candidates for his job as president of New York's City Council. A month ago, according to a New York Daily News poll, he was the most popular of 16 possible candidates (22% of those polled said they would vote...
...went in. Ganger, who had spent 22 years in advertising before Lorillard hired him away from his agency (Geyer, Newell & Ganger) as executive vice president in 1950, had resigned, announced Lorillard, "in the interest of regaining his health." Replacing Ganger was Executive Vice President William J. (for Joseph) Halley, 55, a financial expert who joined Lorillard in 1918, moved up steadily, if not spectacularly, as comptroller, treasurer and financial vice president. In the shuffle last week, Chairman and Former President (1942-52) Herbert A. Kent, 66, took back his old job as chief executive officer...
...that point, City Council President Rudolph Halley saw a fat political opportunity: New York straphangers are presumed to be exceedingly touchy about their 10? fare. A seasoned TV performer (Kefauver committee counsel), Halley went on TV with a plan of his own: reject the Dewey plan, balance the budget by strict economy-a hollow plan with which Politician Impellitteri had toyed. Impellitteri, without any plan of his own beyond a determination not to bring up the subject of the subway fare, denounced the scheme as "Halley's folly...
...breach of trust in that the Committee thought the Arboretum's four-and-a-half-million endowment was given for "horticultural research only" but under the Halley plan (they believed) only a "25-30 percent," of the budget would go to the Arboretum's living collections...