Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help, but his cousin and campaign manager, David Ingalls, was, as well as another man high in the Taft organization, Carroll Reece. These men and the Texas Taftmen will of course be in Taft's favor in the event of his nomination and election. All the time we hear Taft harping on Democratic corruption, and yet by their actions, the Taft organization promises to give us the same type of self-perpetuating corrupt practices...
Numbers & Morals. The Eisenhower party raced on to Dallas, led most of the way by state highway patrolmen, who occasionally got speedometers up to 90. That evening Ike got a standing ovation from the 500 Southwestern Republicans who had come to eat beef sirloin with him, and to hear him go all-out for the first time in his campaign. Bouncing slightly on his toes like a boxer, Eisenhower spoke of the necessity of a Republican victory in November. "I am convinced," said he, "that if the Republican Party does not win, we will seriously risk the existence...
...hate-America campaign is on a vaster scale than the phony postwar "peace" drive. It blankets the press and saturates the air. More significantly, the Russians are determined enough about it to cut into industrial and farm production, gathering Soviet workers into frequent mass meetings to hear denunciations of America...
...professor of speech and drama, has turned Cornell's drama department into one of the best in the country. Like the football coach he started out to be, "the Boss" railed and ranted through hundreds of rehearsals ("May I remind the cast that the audience usually likes to hear the lines that the author has taken the trouble to write?"), badgered and bludgeoned dozens of gawky students into becoming well-known actors and writers. Among them: Sidney Kingsley, Franchot Tone, William Prince, Dorothy Sarnoff, and Dan Duryea ("Strangely enough, he advised me not to become an actor...
Meanwhile, in Rome, Ingrid Bergman awaited the birth of twins while her husband waited to hear whether he would be granted a U.S. entrance visa to permit him a chance to answer, at first hand, Lindstrom's "calumnies." To a reporter, Actress Bergman complained: "I cannot understand why my former husband and myself cannot deal with problems involving [Pia] as grownups...