Word: johnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dull campaign between two dignified, successful and high-minded men. But in New York State's special election for a vacated seat in the U.S. Senate there was the sound of drums. The most emphatic thumps came from the Republican camp. There, looking worried and work-worn, stood John Foster Dulles, the son of a Presbyterian minister, an ex-Wall Street lawyer and an eminent internationalist. He was doing something not to be expected of a Republican candidate of New York...
...Harry Truman's program before saying that he could do them better. Republican Senator Irving Ives had been elected as a liberal, especially sympathetic to much of the New Deal's labor legislation. But, making his first plunge into county-level politics, conservative, 61-year-old Senator John Foster Dulles could not be accused of "me-tooing...
...Laborites enjoyed a few moments of high glee when conservative, ruddy-jowled Sir John Anderson said that he did not want to see the sort of events that followed World War I. Since Winston Churchill was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the time Sir John referred to, Labor members hooted and Churchill glowered at his shirt front. Herbert Morrison taunted both of them, and for a while Churchill and Anderson were popping up & down like marionettes to answer...
Balding Eagle Charles A. Lindbergh, 47, sometime adviser to the U.S. Air Force, made one of his increasingly rare appearances before a camera lens. He was snapped at an air-ground demonstration at Grafenwöhr, Germany, chatting with Lieut. General John K. Cannon, U.S. Air Force commander in Europe...
...campus of Jefferson Military College near Natchez, Miss, stands a monument inscribed: "Aaron Burr tried . . . under these oaks, 1807; Andrew Jackson camped here, 1812-1815; Jefferson Davis a student here, 1815; John James Audubon taught here, 1822; Lafayette reviewed cadets, 1825." But in spite of its historic past, Jefferson Military College had fallen on hard times. Classroom walls were peeling ; desks were worn beyond repair. There were hardly enough students (48) in its high-school classes to keep the place going. Then, a few weeks ago, along came Judge George W. Armstrong...