Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swamped the Republicans in the November elections (House 283-153; Senate 64-34); the Republicans were stuck with their refusal to spend their way out of the recession; their once-popular President was held to be an ailing lame duck. Four 1960-minded Democratic Senators -Texas' Lyndon Johnson, Missouri's Stuart Symington, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Massachusetts' John Fitzgerald Kennedy-appeared on every score card. But by the time the 86th Congress got ready to adjourn this week for its half-time break, the four Democratic hopefuls had learned the dangers of underrating the other team...
Sifting the Evidence. In Salt Lake City, summoned by Mrs. Connie Johnson to catch a prowler, police fired two tear gas shells into her attic, set the whole second story afire, after inspection of the charred wreckage reported: "No prowler...
...days later, still seething over the defeat of their House colleagues, Senate Democrats sharply attacked when an Eisenhower courier flew back from Europe with a veto for the second fat housing bill they have passed this year. Exploiting the peak moment of indignation, crafty Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson called for an immediate vote to override. But his forces fell short by five votes, too weak again to crash the veto wall. Rocked...
...each from the North and South) include ex-Governors John S. Battle of Virginia and Doyle E. Carlton of Florida, Notre Dame University's President Theodore M. Hesburgh, Dean Robert G. Storey of the Southern Methodist Law School, and former Dean of Howard University Law School George M. Johnson...
...Senate majority leader, Lyndon Johnson-Johnson City High School, Johnson City, Texas...