Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among Democrats, Tennessee's 35-year-old Governor Frank Clement is a man to watch-and to hear. With a rafter-quaking oratorical style. Clement hopes to roll his throbbing clauses to the vice-presidency this year. A typical Clement peroration: "Once in this world, a lonely figure climbed a cross-marked hill, and went from there into an airless tomb. He was the foe of lies, dishonor, theft and treachery. He was the champion of truth, honor, faith and bravery. It is my fervent prayer that I can so live as to be worthy of His sacrifice...
...free men, often enough. But I believe that out of that meeting can come, perhaps, a message of hope and guidance to the world." If there was to be hope found, or guidance given, the U.S. and Britain would have to intervene forcefully in the Israel-Arab situation. To hear both impassioned sides tell it (see below), the Arabs and the Jews are preparing for, or at least resigned to war. Part, but not all, of this noise is designed for outside effect, to establish bargaining positions. But the two sides are also so deeply committed emotionally that it will...
Professor of Economics Alvin Hansen refused comment other than nothing that "you can't tell what's going to happen next week or next year. Everyone is guessing; they hear a reasonable guess and say the same thing...
...shame, according to these folks," said the editorial, "for this lovely character to be high-pressured and dragooned by callous G.O.P. politicians into running for a second wearing, tearing White House term . . . he's earned a rest . . . and sob, sob, sob. What puzzles us is that you hear no similar moans and groans about Senator Lyndon B. Johnson. Senator Johnson had a heart attack, too ... Yet it seems quite okay with the New-Fair Dealers for Johnson to work like a horse as the heavily burdened leader of the Senate Democratic majority. How do you explain that, please...
Reading the experts, the Louisville Courier-Journal summed up: "There are some who think their ears to the ground have found certain intelligible rumblings. The great chance is that they are hearing only what they want to hear...