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Word: johnsons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong trend against Republicans, the Democratic nomination seems increasingly precious. In the Democratic wings, just waiting for the right cue to go onstage, is a whole troupe of possible candidates: New Jersey's Governor Robert Meyner, with a big win under his belt; Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson, who has yet to extend his vast Senate prestige to the outside world; Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, ready, in Sputnik's day, to cash in on five years of criticizing Republican defense policy; Adlai Stevenson, believed by many to be eager to try against some Republican besides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Man Out Front | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...back up his razor-edged wit and deadly personal insult with well-worn fists; of cancer; in Jackson, Miss. Though he was a lifelong foe of Negro-baiters ("hysterical rabble-rousers and spouting demagogues"), and scathingly attacked the late Senator Theodore Bilbo, Representative John Rankin and Governor Paul Johnson, Sullens was himself a confirmed opponent of desegregation, waged a bitter campaign against the 1954 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MILESTONES | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

Eliot: John H. Finley III, Richard M. Sallick, and David H. Wallace. Kirkland: David M. Busse, Larry R. Johnson, Marvin E. Lewis, Robert S. November, and Harold P. Peterson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 42 Seniors Petition For Marshal Post | 11/26/1957 | See Source »

...Another Higgins commercial enterprise that falls well within the rules: she owns a "substantial share" of a new Howard Johnson restaurant (segregated) in Cherrydale, Va., just outside Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Fine Print | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...beyond all the extraneous material in him which is just material for a psychiatrist's filing cabinet. I fought my own way out of this ocean to what is my own expression. But what the people want is not a bull in a field, but a Howard Johnson hamburger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: HOME FOR MODERNS | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

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