Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 550 ladies slogged through Washington, D.C.'s record snowfall (14 in.) to a luncheon where Lady Bird Johnson, wife of the Senate majority leader, got a "Togetherness Award," presented to her by pert Dancer Marge Champion. Lurking together in the background were the affair's cosponsors, McCall's magazine and the Hecht Co., the capital's big department-store chain. Among other women honored for exemplifying "togetherness" (defined by McCall's Editor and Publisher Otis Wiese as "our greatest natural resource"): Adele Rogers, wife of the Attorney General; Author Bonaro W. (Understanding Fear...
...promptly invited to come home and find a good architect. "I didn't think of anything else for 2½ months," she says. She went to see a friend on the staff of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, was sent down the hall to Architect Philip Johnson, then the M.M.A.'s director of architecture. There the trail to Mies began...
...governors of Colorado, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Washington-Democrats all-dispatched a joint telegram to President Eisenhower urging a "practical program" (i.e., plenty of federal funds) to combat "the growing national recession." On Capitol Hill, Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson outlined a ten-point antirecession program that Senate Democrats were busy drafting. It called for more and faster federal spending for just about every variety of public work, even reached back to the Great Depression to include a stand-by WPA-type program. Cried Johnson's deputy majority leader, Montana...
...Johnson's program did not include tax cuts, but Illinois' Paul Douglas, fresh from firsthand conversations with Chicago's unemployed, filled in the gap by hoppering a bill to trim personal income and excise taxes by $4.4 billion. Over in the House, Texas' Speaker Sam Rayburn, despite his own opposition to tax cuts, ordered lieutenants to get a tax-cut bill drafted in case the economy fails to pep up in early spring. And for all his confidence in ultimate prosperity, Richard Nixon put the Republicans within leaping distance of the tax-cut bandwagon. Said...
Mike Klapper and Bill Trebilcock will fence second and third positions in foil, with Dick Johnson, and Bill Bassetti in reserve...