Word: helle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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POLITICS : Democrat Harry Truman, appearing at the National Press Club last week, had explained his estranged relationship with Ike this way: "I gave him hell when he didn't knock [Indiana's now-retiring Republican Senator] Jenner off the platform after he called General Marshall a traitor.* He's been mad at me ever since-and I don't give a damn." Said the President: "I think that most of you have found that I have had a little bit too much sense to waste my time getting mad at anybody . . . And to say that...
...very merry Christmas for Hubert Humphrey." The New York Times's Washington Bureau Chief James Reston, noting that Washington had long been skeptical of Humphrey, wrote of a reappraisal: "He has been suffering for years from the original impression he created here as a gabby, to-hell-with-the-consequences liberal . . . Hubert Humphrey is still a pretty glib and cocky fellow, who looks like a cross between Bugs Bunny and Jimmy Cagney, but the Senate has amended its opinion of him upward in the last six years." Democratic Elder Stateswoman Eleanor Roosevelt said that Humphrey comes closest...
...facing each other across a brace of microphones and a polished table in Montgomery, Ala. were deeply disturbed. Farmer Aaron Sellers, of Bullock County, a Negro, told of six attempts to register as an Alabama voter and six failures, including a time when he was warned, "Get the hell out of here." Behind the table, as Sellers' testimony ended, the president of the University of Notre Dame leaned grimly forward. Asked the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh: "Mr. Sellers, you going to continue to attempt to register?" Answered Sellers: "Yes, I'm determined to register." Said Father Hesburgh, smiling...
Replied Hoffa cockily: "What the hell, it just means another fight." It could mean a great deal more than that. If Judge Letts sticks to his guns, the ruling could lead eventually to Hoffa's being kicked out of the Teamsters' presidency. It was the most serious legal step against Teamster corruption since the Senate committee began its exposures, and, in the light of the "big week" in Miami, it came none too soon. "Now we have a blueprint to get something done," said Monitor Chairman Martin F. O'Donoghue. "We haven't even begun...
When the French Communist Party lost 140 seats fortnight ago in the French National Assembly, reducing its strength to ten, it lost more than its old power to block legislation and raise general hell. It also lost close to $1,000,000 a year in party revenues...