Word: harold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offered an amendment to increase by $200 million the bartering provisions on farm-surplus shipments abroad. Northern Democrats joined Republicans in opposition and Cooley's amendment got slaughtered, 143 to 52. New Jersey's Frank Thompson expressed the feelings of most Northern Representatives when he told Cooley: "Harold, from now on I'm against anything that grows." On that basis, the House vote on the Landrum-Griffin bill may be remembered long for political results that have no apparent connection with labor reform...
...offered condolences to Number 96453. "Betjeman, J. Our great friend, this poet has aspired to write esoteric verse. Unfortunately his work has now received general acclaim . . ." Current members in good standing include Lord Mountbatten, Evelyn Waugh. Sir Gladwyn Jebb, T. S. Eliot, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, but not Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell (though he is an Oxford man); Press Lords Kemsley and Astor, but not Beaverbrook (no college). In its correspondence columns the Establishment Chronicle approvingly published the letter of an M.P. aspiring to membership in the Establishment...
...Governor's resolution fell short of Rockefeller's original aim in one critical area. Not one Governor got behind Rocky's compulsory shelter idea, the strongest section in his resolution. Said Indiana Republican Harold Handley: "All we have to do is to prevent war, and then we don't have to have shelters." Added South Carolina Democrat Ernest ("Fritz") Hollings aimlessly: "There is a right to live and a right to die. Housing, highways, health, and things of the living are more important. I doubt the public would accept such a program...
...Queen's duties later on. In the midst of popular enthusiasm, more sobersided politicians took note of another side effect of the news. With the Queen's presence in England next fall now assured (her acquiescence is necessary to the dissolution of Parliament), Prime Minister Harold Macmillan would have an extra month before having to call a general election, which presumably will now be held in November...
Married. Margaret O'Brien, 22, a pig-tailed film star at four (Journey for Margaret), who won hearts with her winsome smile until age made her a Hollywood has-been at 13; and Harold Robert Allen, 24, commercial artist; in Los Angeles...