Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faithful by the party in power. When the government alternated with some frequency between Liberals and Tories, party strength in the Senate kept fairly well balanced. Today, however, after 19 years of uninterrupted Liberal control, the Tories' Senate strength has dwindled to seven seats; the Liberals hold 75. Liberal St. Laurent would scarcely appoint Tory politicians. But he hoped that his non-political appointments would correct some of the Senate's imbalance. Intimates reported that he was deeply disappointed at the church's veto...
...Presbyterian minister, James Moffatt Douglas, who was elected as an M.P. in 1896, was elevated to the Senate in 1906, the only clergyman ever to hold a Senatorship...
...seconds. U.S. Bobber Lloyd Johnson, 40, the 1953 champion, had less luck. Experimenting with rope guides earlier this month at Garmisch, he had been flipped on his head and suffered a broken collar bone. At St. Moritz, the broken bone held rigid in a splint, Johnson could not hold his sled on the chute. It climbed the wall of Sunny Corner, tossed him and his teammates out of the running...
...Communist Party," said Morris Ernst, lawyer and professional liberal, to officer-students of the Southern Police Institute in Louisville, Ky. By stressing the difference between "guilt and regret," he said, clergymen could encourage many more disillusioned Communists to leave the party. "It is the province of religion to hold before men the symbol ot forgiveness. Lawyers don't have the equipment for it." On parochial schools: "I think Catholic parochial schools are doing a disservice to the Catholics who go to them...I am against Jewish parochial schools. To train people separately is segregation." On U.S. Roman Catholics...
Among the 750 Washington reporters who hold White House press cards, two are correspondents for the Russian official news agency, Tass, and one is a correspondent for Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker. Three weeks ago, to illustrate an article titled "Where Russians Can Go in the U.S.," weekly U.S. News & World Report printed an almost full-sized picture of the White House card along with the cards for the congressional press galleries, the State Department and the White House Correspondents Association. * Last week presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty announced that reproduction of the cards in the magazine...