Word: helene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lost an off-year election in the state since 1934. In California, Representative Richard Nixon, the man who did most (in the House Un-American Activities Committee) to drag the Alger Hiss case into the open, was conceded a big lead toward the Senate over Fair Dealing Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas...
Woman for the Senate. Even in the California Senate race, where 49-year-old Democratic Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas was finding it hard going (see above), Barkley didn't seem very helpful. To Republican charges that she had left a Communist-line voting record in the House, he replied: "I'm not familiar with all of Mrs. Douglas' votes. I'm quite sure [she] voted her conscientious convictions. The mere fact that she voted the same as Marcantonio I don't regard as of any significance." Then, somewhat confusingly, he added: "The Senate could stand...
...Metropolitan Opera's Helen Traubel sounded a Wagnerian note for her home town when she announced that she had bought into the St> Louis Browns, perennial sad sacks of the American League. The deal was no gamble, said she: "I know they are going to do something . . . This is an investment in faith and in sentiment...
...Helen A. Rivlin 3G, director-treasurer of the Graduate Student Council, reported yesterday that 1500 students have joined the Graduate Club thus far. The club's chief functions are throwing weekend dances and serving Sunday meals for those who are weary of the fare in the dining halls and around the Square...
Meanwhile, in New Haven, his attorney spent more than two hours conferring with Trent-Lyon in the presence of his mother. Trent-Lyon, a Yale College graduate, was identified Monday by the victim's widow, Mrs. Helen Thorne, as her husband's killer...