Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he arrived in Washington at week's end, Majority Leader Johnson had a daily routine planned to hold down the strain on his own heart. He had not been on the Senate floor since he suffered a severe attack in July; he plans to stay there for only an hour at a time during this session. Each day he expects to be on hand from noon until 1 p.m.; then he will retire to his second-floor office, off the Senate Gallery, for a two-hour nap. Late in the afternoon he will reappear on the floor briefly...
...bill to exempt natural-gas producers from fed eral regulation. Texan Johnson and Demo crats from other gas-producing states are hot for the bill; big-city Democrats, e.g., Illinois' Paul Douglas and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, are dead set against it (they want federal controls to hold prices down). Republicans are also divided on the issue, but not as sharply as the Demo crats. Lyndon Johnson believes that in an election year it is best to get such a bomb shell out of the way early...
...duty is that of ironing-or, if necessary, stomping-out the scores of differences that must arise within any Administration. It is up to Sherman Adams to bring together for negotiation the department and agency heads who may have an interest in a specific problem. He can and does hold over their heads the fact that if they do not arrive at a reasonable solution he will write the recommendation himself-and his is the one that goes to President Eisenhower marked with the all-important scrawl...
Algeria, technically a part of metropolitan France since 1848, was the only part of France to hold no election this week. But it was not forgotten: Algeria was the central, most heated issue in the French election...
...pounds will be Bob Eastling, while Rick Sullivan will hold the 167 spot. Bob Foster at 177 and either Tom Francis or Dan Leary at heavyweight will round out the lineup...