Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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News from the Coast yesterday that Humphrey Bogart had traded in his gat came, if it had to come, at the wrong time of year. Bogie, the Andover man who never made it to Yale, was a welcome friend in warm, dark movie houses as exams menaced. While many of his 70-odd pictures will be around a long time, it's sad to realize that he won't be climbing in and out of shiny limousines on rainy nights, his dirty trenchcoat stiff despite his jaunty gait, his ragged lisp almost but never quite making him sound comical...
...debate waned, Minnesota's Democratic Hubert Humphrey put a parliamentary inquiry to Vice President Richard Nixon: "Under what rule," Humphrey asked the chair, "is the Senate presently proceeding?" Then came the clay's floor-shaking surprise. Said Dick Nixon: "It is the opinion of the chair that there can be no question but that the majority . . . under the Constitution has the power to determine the rules . . . The right of a current majority ... to adopt its own rules, stemming as it does from the Constitution itself, cannot be restricted or limited by rules adopted by the Senate...
...Treasury's George Humphrey and Budget Director Percival Brundage who put in a pitch for money. In fiscal 1958 (beginning next July 1) the U.S. budget will run about $72 billion, they warned, up $6 billion from the current year-but still in balance (perhaps with a surplus), thanks to expected increased revenues. Most of the hike in expenses will come in defense, with the 1958 military bill running more than $38.5 billion (v. $35.9 billion...
...good news side of the ledger, Humphrey and Brundage predicted a surplus at the close of business next June 30 of $1.5 billion to $1.7 billion (estimate last January: a cautious $435 million). How about a tax cut? Said Humphrey dourly: Not a chance...
...Bess Truman, 71, resting comfortably in an Independence, Mo. hospital after breaking her left ankle in a stairway fall at home; cinema Tough Guy Humphrey Bogart, 58, slowly mending from throat cancer surgery last March despite weight loss (he now scales 120 lbs. v. his normal 150); Wisconsin's Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, 47, out of Bethesda Naval Hospital in time to attend the opening of Congress, recovered from further surgery on the site of an operation he underwent last summer for removal of a tumor in his right...