Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columnist Drew Pearson, Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy tried to hit Pearson where it hurt-in the pocketbook. In a speech on the floor of the Senate, he urged the U.S. public to protest to the 650 newspapers which carry Pearson's column and to boycott Adam Hat Stores, Inc., which sponsors Pearson's Sunday-night radio broadcast (estimated audience: 10 million). Last week Washington Columnist Doris Fleeson, an old friend of Pearson's, broke the news that McCarthy had won a round: Adam Hats had decided not to renew Pearson...
...Adam Hat President Charles V. Molesworth denied the dropping of Pearson had anything to do with McCarthy. He insisted that it was "a planned change in advertising media." Pearson said that this was technically true, as he had been trying to negotiate a new contract with the sponsor. But, said Pearson, "we were in friendly discussions until last Friday afternoon [when McCarthy made the boycott speech]." Promptly Adam and half a dozen other potential sponsors scurried over the horizon...
Pearson, a $300,000-a-year capitalist type with a clear anti-Communist record, was thrown on the defensive in this headbutting session, if only because it seemed to make his $5,000-a-week radio sponsor, Adam Hats, slightly nervous (the Senator implied that anyone who bought an Adam Hat was aiding & abetting Moscow). Pearson cried that the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and even the President of France had applauded him for fighting Communism. He dared McCarthy to repeat the charges outside the libel-proof citadel of the Senate. McCarthy, who knows a lot about libel...
...welcome Clement Attlee back from his White House conferences, the London Daily Mail ran a cartoon of the Prime Minister dressed in cowboy boots, holding a ten-gallon hat and speaking a Fleet Street version of U.S. dialect: "Waal folks, I been away quite a piece, I guess, and it sure is mighty fine to be back here wid youse guys on dis li'l ol' island...
Zorn was in despair "when he felt a gentle finger touch his elbow." It was the Golux, "a little man smiling in the moonlight. He wore an indescribable hat, his eyes were wide and astonished, as if everything were happening for the first time, and he had a dark, describable beard...