Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate will miss the steady hand of Taft. Around the Capitol there is a common saying: "Things don't go right when Bob isn't here." For Bill Knowland, the new assignment is a major challenge. At 44 he is still a stripling as Senators go, both in years and experience, though he is generally regarded as a comer. Knowland's principal task: to steer the Senate through the remaining weeks of the session, and deliver the "must" legislation (mostly appropriations, which are in the capable hands of Styles Bridges) along the course already charted...
...near miracle," and Georgia's conservative Walter George is now saying of Humphrey: "Hubert is doing much better these days." Dick Russell sums up some of Johnson's talents neatly: "He doesn't have the best mind on the Democratic side of the Senate; he isn't the best orator; he isn't the best parliamentarian. But he's the best combination of all those qualities...
...downs in 30 years as a major-league player and manager, used to throw himself into hilarious pratfalls along the third-base coaching line whenever one of his team hit a homer. Nowadays, though "I still clown with my boys," Grimm no longer mugs for the fans. "It isn't that I've gone dignified," he explains. "It's strictly age" (54). "Jolly Cholly," who prides himself in being "the only left-handed banjo player in the majors," wisely refuses to pick Milwaukee for the pennant, but his banjo is plunking away on an old tune this...
...they had invented the thing first. A Chicago beanery produced the 3-D Special, and a Midwestern minister gave a sermon on "Prayer-the Third Dimension." Exuberant Cinemogul George Skouras kissed Pageanteer Mike Todd in public. Somebody else brought out a Polaroid lorgnette. "Whaddya mean, vulgar?" cried one movieman. "Isn't the public entitled to be hit in the face...
...with it, the NLRB rose to influence large areas of the U.S. economy. The A.F.L. accused the board of being blatantly pro-C.I.O., and one A.F.L. leader declared that his union would "refuse to abide by NLRB decisions until Edwin S. Smith* is investigated to see if he isn't more interested in Russia than the U.S." In 1941, a special House investigating committee reported that Smith had shown "a disturbing . . . interest in and support of persons and organizations . . . opposed to the American system of private enterprise." In mid-1941, Smith's term ran out, and Franklin...