Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Colonel Harrison Gray Otis...
Steirman first tested the proposition in 1958, when he bought two exposé magazines, Whisper and Confidential, from their former publisher, Robert Harrison, who had been fined $10,000 for publishing obscenity. Under Steirman, the magazines have become about as racy as racing programs, and combined newsstand sales have dropped to 510,000 from a peak of 4,100,000. But Steirman claims that both are in the black. In 1961, he resurrected Blue Book, a man's magazine dropped by McCall Corp. five years earlier as a bad job. Steirman's Bluebook for Men has a newsstand...
...committee voted against a proposal by Sen. Kerl E. Mundt (R.S.D.), to ban use of government loans or financing guaranteeing that American sellers will be paid for the grain they ship to Iron Curtain countries. The committee vote first was announced as a 7-7 tie, but Sen. Harrison A. Williams (D.N.J.), sent his proxy to provide the margin against...
Keeping the merry-go-round whirling are the city's hostesses. There are dozens of them, ranging from the First Lady down to the newest Texas millionairess, who figures all she needs to succeed is a wad of money and a big house, just like Dolly Harrison in Advise and Consent. But on the New Frontier, where talent and power are the most negotiable currency, the moneyed matrons are out and the "official" hostesses-the wives of ambassadors and Administration officials-are in. Short of a summons to dinner at the White House, few invitations are treasured as highly...
...Liberty. The war between Capitol Hill and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue came to a climax with F.D.R.'s veto, over the desperate pleas of Democratic Senate Leader Alben W. Barkley, of a 1944 tax bill. Barkley's one-vote election as majority leader over Mississippi's Pat Harrison had come only with the all-out help of the Administration, and he had felt obligated ever since. But this was too much. Barkley resigned from his leadership post in a highly emotional Senate moment. Senate Democrats promptly caucused and unanimously re-elected Barkley-now, they thought, a free...