Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Ed Stowell's freshman track team opens its season tomorrow afternoon, meeting the Dartmouth freshmen at Hanover. On the basis of its practice so far, the team looks stronger in the weights than in its running events. Dunc Johnson in the 35 lb. weight and Jeff Paley in the shot appear among the best prospects on the squad...
Because of opposition to the group by Congressional chieftans, Senator Lyndon Johnson, Majority leader of the Senate, and Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House, only two of the 12 members of Congress Butler appointed have agreed to serve. They are Senators Estes Kefauver (Tenn.) and Hubert H. Humphrey (Minn...
...rumored that one reason Kennedy had been reluctant to accept the place on the advisory group was that he did not want to antagonize Senator Johnson prior to Senate committee assignments. Tuesday, however, Kennedy received the position he desired, on the Foreign Relations Committee. His chief competitor for that place was Kefauver, who had previously accepted the Advisory Committee appointment...
...there are some who ride the Uncle-pays plan like a gravy train. Last week, in offices scattered all over the world. U.S. diplomatic and information officials were recounting a nightmarish story of two such hellbent freeloaders, both staff members of the Senate Appropriations Committee. They are Grace Johnson, fiftyish, tough-talking, weight-throwing $10,000-a-year staffer and longtime friend of Louisiana's Democratic Senator Allen J. Ellender; and her companion, Mississippi-born Mary Frances Holloway, fortyish, an assistant committee clerk. Twice, the two women made prolonged trips abroad, ostensibly to investigate the operations...
...variety of services they demanded. "If you don't give us the treatment we expect," announced one of them to a high U.S. official, "you're out. We'll take care of you when we get back to Washington." At one point, Investigator Johnson cabled then-SHAPE Commander General Alfred Gruenther, demanded an airplane to fetch them for delivery at their next stop. The general declined, but another time, in Italy, the women conned the Air Force out of a plane for their...