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Drafted into the Army as a private in 1942, Knowland had risen to major and was serving in France when California's Governor Earl Warren appointed him to the U.S. Senate vacancy created by the death of Hiram Johnson. California politicians generally regarded this as payment of a political debt to Knowland's millionaire father, who had started Warren on his career and whose daily Oakland Tribune had long supported the governor. In 1946 Knowland trounced Democrat Will Rogers Jr. Last year he won both the Republican and Democratic nominations with a total of 2,308,051 votes...
Among Harvard's top stocks are Standard Oil of New Jersey, General Electric, General Motors, B.F. Goodrich, Texas Company, Union Carbide, and, appropriately enough, Hiram Walker...
...Mellon for cutting taxes. In 1931, alarmed by mounting unemployment, he warned: "Congress should devote its energies ... to the enactment of a relief program . . . The time has come for Congress to assert its leadership." Young Bob soon took his place in the G.O.P. opposition with such towering progressives as Hiram Johnson and George Norris...
...agency of the Civil Service Commission, the LRB was set up in 1947 by Harry Truman. Chaired by a Connecticut Republican, ex-Sen ator Hiram Bingham, it is now composed of 31 members who sit in panels of three or more. While the board's personnel is publicly known, the names of members reviewing particular cases are kept confidential...
...slumps. There are such pleasant-enough Vernon Duke tunes as It Just Occurred to Me —though it could have occurred to a good many composers. There are a number of skits with promising ideas, but few that are even reasonably funny. Dave Burns is an enjoyable comic, and Hiram Sherman-even without good material-an ingratiating commentator. Most notably, Jerome Robbins has worked out some attractive dances and ballets, and Ballerina Nora Kaye contributes some attractive dancing. But somehow all these names don't add up to very much news...