Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...center of controversy in New York State politics since Governor Harriman's defeat by Nelson A. Rockefeller last November, DeSapio has been accused of "bossism" by Republican leaders...
Dirty Shirts? Two months earlier Republican Rockefeller, just elected by a 550,000-vote margin over Democrat Averell Harriman, captivated the legislature's Republicans by painting in broad inaugural brushstrokes a picture of the road ahead. Then legislators got a glimpse of the canvas' detail. Rockefeller introduced a record $2 billion budget, asked an unprecedented $277 million in new taxes to balance it. Many newspapers were horrified, legislators were inundated with letters protesting the increases...
...India for a gander at its industrial progress, New York's ex-Governor Averell Harriman found New Delhi newsmen singularly intrigued by his now dormant role in U.S. politics. Did he have any chances of securing the presidency? "No chances at all," said Honest Ave. But, demanded another, did the Governor have White House ambitions? Answered Harriman, somewhat more briskly: "Neither-no chances or ambitions...
...balanced out of current income. From the House, Speaker Sam Rayburn allowed that Ike's request for an increase in gasoline taxes (from 3? to 4½?) would get a "pretty cold reception." On the spend-and-spend side was a bulletin from the Democratic Advisory Council (Averell Harriman, Adlai Stevenson, Harry S. Truman, et al.) that damned the budget provisions as "weak and inadequate . . . Pocketbook before people . . . Close to being a fraud on the American people...
...hour, U.S.-style press conference within the ancient Kremlin* walls, Mikoyan reported to the Soviet press on his trip. In high good humor, he told of visiting the dacha of Cleveland Industrialist Cyrus Eaton, and of a luncheon at which he had pressed "my old friend" former Governor Averell Harriman to revisit Moscow now that Nelson Rockefeller had freed him to travel. Mikoyan paid tribute to American women -"they were very nice to us; they cannot hide their feelings as well as a man" -and recalled with evident relish his luncheon with those archvillains of Communist mythology, the bankers...