Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...racket reverberated briskly from an article in the magazine Washingtonian contending that there were seven good tennis players in the Senate, only one of whom-New York's Jacob Javits, 63-is a Republican. When Pennsylvania's Democrat Joseph Clark saw fit to mention the matter on the Senate floor, Tennessee Republican Howard Baker netted five other tautly strung Republicans for doubles duty in something called the U.S. Senate Tennis championship. The Washingtonian knew what it was talking about. Democrats Clark and Claiborne Pell (R.I.) knocked off Illinois' Charles Percy and South Carolina's Strom Thurmond...
Certain that they had scant chance of beating the ticket of Chief of State Thieu and Premier Ky, the ten civilian candidates for President claimed fraud almost from the moment the campaign started. A dozen U.S. Senators, led by Robert Kennedy and Jacob Javits, echoed their claim that the election campaign was a "farce" and a "charade." It was to counter such senatorial critics that President Johnson hastily assembled 22 U.S. observers and dispatched them to Viet Nam as poll watchers...
...majority of the Labor Committee was not concerned with the President's feelings. "I don't care," said New York's Republican Jacob Javits. "It's time that at least one congressional committee stood up to the President and let him know that it can see what is needed in the cities and has the guts to go ahead and propose it." Nor is the mood of frustrated independence likely to change after the recess is over. "We not only don't know the answers ourselves," said one Republican Senator, "but we are completely convinced...
...dates later, Watson is located dead-center in the forward thrust of country music toward highbrow as well as lowbrow respectability. The very impurity of his style, coupled with the exhilaration his work generates, goes a long way to accomplish this aim. Like a select few before him (John Jacob Miles, Travis, Clarence Ashley), he forms a bridge between America's primitive folk heritage and the sophisticated listener...
What it boils down to is one major hassle over the ASP, and a defeat here would set back the whole trend toward more international trade. As Senator Jacob Javits put it, "Unless forces favoring trade liberalization are ready to go into battle in defense of the principle of trade liberalization on every one of these issues, much that has been gained over the past four years of the Kennedy Round could easily be lost. And let's not kid ourselves, unless we have the full support of the President the chances of resisting self-interest and protectionist forces will...