Word: harolde
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Little Black Book. The Teamster assault on the bill began with a grand gesture: invitations to all 435 House members to come, two dozen at a time, for breakfast at the Congressional Hotel. The host: Harold Gibbons, hard-boiled Hoffa deputy from St. Louis, who made his breakfasts politically tasty by flying in union leaders from the home regions of each day's new group of House guests. No fewer than 245 Congressmen heard Host Gibbons introduce Persuader Zagri as his own "community relations" expert from St. Louis. "We are not against legislation," said Zagri smoothly, "but this bill...
...playing-dancing, dining out, picnicking, traveling-but very little working. Others objected to a scene showing teenagers romping to raucous rock 'n' roll. But the fashion industry committee that put the show together (at the request of the U.S. exhibition's General Manager Harold C. McClellan) felt that the "not representative" charge was aimed primarily at scenes showing whites and Negroes mingling at social events, notably a civil wedding with a white couple serving as the attendants of a Negro bride and groom. Having shown dubious taste by including so phony a scene in the first place...
Over their port and cigars in London, parliamentarians and barristers were impressed by the efficiency and economy of the ombudsman system. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan promised to give the matter "careful" study. Labor's Hugh Gaitskell concurred. But other M.P.s were quick to point out that the ombudsman system would cut across the primary sources of parliamentary authority and power. They thought that what would work in the more placid arena of Scandinavia, with its tradition of dispassionate counselors such as Dag Hammarskjold. would not do so well in the bigger and more contentious British setting...
...have risen from factory and mine. "The day of the cloth cap in the Labor Party is over," laments one working-class ex-minister. Bustling about the country with the air of a don doing his best to be folksy, Gaitskell has not been able to match Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's glamor, but he has earned solid respect. He has kept his party fully behind NATO and, though infatuated with the notion of disengagement, has also kept his party behind the allied position in Berlin...
...Harvard Business School, switched careers after a short stint as an attendant in a mental sanitarium. After medical school at Boston University, he wound up as commissioner of Massachusetts' department of mental diseases. When terrible-tempered Governor James Michael Curley fired him in 1936, U.S. Interior Secretary Harold Ickes hired him as head of St. Elizabeths, a federal hospital. Teaching at George Washington University, he concentrated on spreading psychiatry among general practitioners because "there will never be enough psychiatrists to go around." His sane humanism -he is a book collector, music lover, once served as moderator of the American...