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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kennedy has his sights fixed on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and his Senatorial record provides ample evidence of inconsistency, party politicking, and even desertion of the basic needs of this state. Although he refused to vote against the St. Lawrence Seaway, Kennedy introduced a bill supporting a higher U.S. tariff on fish. His support of the jury-trial amendment was received favorably in the South, but not in Northern liberal strongholds. His stand against McCarthyism, moreover, came too late in the game to be counted as a display of anything but opportunism...
...Dominion Steel and Coal Company when they heard and felt an explosion. The result did not become clear until two days later when all precincts were heard from and 39 men were counted dead. The newspapermen on hand for the occasion were figuring on an even higher total, but the miners, who are a courageous lot, fooled everybody. Promptly adjusting to the situation in which they found themselves, many of the men lay on their bellies and sucked air through tiny holes in a pipe. Some lay on their bellies and sucked air for 43 hours. Help eventually found them...
...knew nothing but could talk fast." Cecil B. DeMille "has been sort of a one-man dark ages that has reigned in Hollywood for 30 or 40 years. He learned the trick of making movies about horses, for horses, and he got terribly wealthy." But Sam Goldwyn is "a higher-class fellow. A fine producer, he has no head . . . He has a very intellectual stomach. It would react at a distance of 50 pages. If you were reading a script and it had a wrong passage, Sam's stomach would react. He would turn pale and green...
They must yield to the just and well-trained conscience, and one recognizes the true man of the law . . . by his skill in interpreting legal texts with a view to ward the higher welfare of the individuals and of the community...
...product rate in July-September apparently was around $440 billion, v. the recession's low of $425.8 billion in January-March, Weeks predicted that the final-quarter G.N.P. rate will hit $450 billion, v. the prerecession peak of $445.6 billion in the summer of 1957-and go even higher...