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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...damned fools are going to fix it so that you'll never even be able to beat Ave Harriman," snorted Virginia's Democratic Senator Harry Byrd to his good friend, Republican Treasury Secretary George Humphrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: A Well-Botched Job | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...Wall Street") instead of under the politically tested system of federal-state matching funds, with the federal share coming from regular appropriations. The program would have been placed outside the annual appropriations control of Congress, a surrender of power unlikely to appeal to Congressmen. Also, at George Humphrey's insistence, the road-building costs would not have been figured in the national debt. ("The end of honest bookkeeping," snapped Byrd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: A Well-Botched Job | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...obvious that Harriman will be a presidential candidate if Stevenson isn't. The latest indication was that last month Gov. Harriman joined Sen. Humphrey in buttering up the Hearst newspapers. "Ave" appointed Hearst Corporation President and McCarthy's great pal, Richard Berlin, to the Saratoga Springs Commission. The job is unimportant and unpaid, but there is some honor attached to it. Words fail me to express my dismay and disgust at such hypocrisy. Has Harriman so quickly forgotten what happened to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. when he lost his liberal support by playing up to its enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judgments & Prophecies, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

Producer's Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). The Petrified Forest, starring Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, may 30, 1955 | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

...Hollywood, where tenth wedding anniversaries are almost as rare as 100th birthdays, newsmen converged on Cinemactor Humphrey (Beat the Demi) Bogart, 55, and his bodkin-tongued wife, Cineminx Lauren (How to Marry a Millionaire) Bacall, 30, asked them in bewildered tones how they had survived a decade of cinematrimony. Chorused the Bogarts blissfully: "We are oldfashioned. We believe in double beds." Explained Bogey in laconic tones: "It's pretty hard to sulk over something if you share the same bed." Philosopher Bogart, no great profile, gave Hollywood's fast-mating sirens the back of his hand: "Most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 30, 1955 | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

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