Word: hasn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leak. As the Government expanded, it developed a slick technique of professional pressagentry. Sometimes the pressagents do a helpful and necessary job of briefing reporters on complicated subjects. But too often they plug only the Administration's side of a crucial Government issue, hope the reporter hasn't the sense or gumption to dig up the other side. The Federal Government now employs about 5,000 full-and part-time pressagents, spends an estimated $65 million a year on salaries and printing. The payroll is still growing fast; in a year the number of pressagents in the Defense...
...newsmen. Last week the leak was briefly turned against Vice President Alben Barkley. The word was whispered around Washington that Alben Barkley could never run again for the vice presidency. "The old man," said one Senator, "just can't take the grind any more." Barkley, newsmen were told, hasn't even enough strength left to preside over the daily sessions of the Senate, is forced to pass out the job to other Democratic Senators. Columnist Robert S. Allen dished out a full portion of his own inside dope: "Vice President Barkley is in serious danger of going blind...
Between the Truman muddle and the Republican fuddle, where are we? Nineteen forty-eight hasn't taught the G.O.P. a thing! I believe it's time for the Republican Party to clean house, and come up with a new slate; 1952 is just around the corner...
...represents U.S. automobile finance dealers-cried that it was "unconscionable and inequitable." Myers is now a Washington representative for an outfit called the National Foundation for Consumer Credit. He is wiser now. he said. "A Senator is against inflation and somebody hands him something like Regulation W, and he hasn't much time and he's told it's against inflation so he accepts it ... People should be educated as this Senator-after study, thought and consideration-was. The fact is," he added righteously, "Regulation W is highly inflationary...
...Tucker felt perfectly free to talk. The grafted kidney was placed where she can feel it, she said. "It's still there, it hasn't floated, and if it's only the size of a hazelnut, it's the biggest hazelnut that ever grew." Added Mrs. Tucker: "While I do have butterflies in my stomach about it, I'm more mad than anything...