Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bracing his lanky Texas frame against his polished first-row desk, Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson early one evening last week delivered his latest plea for nonpartisanship in the U.S. Senate. He had a good partisan reason. Far from indulging in nonpartisanship as Lyndon likes it, Republican Senators were heightening their resistance to pell-mell Democratic antirecession spending...
Idle Gestures. The week's first roadblock loomed up when Johnson cast around for the two-thirds Senate vote needed to override the White House vetoes of 1) the bill to freeze farm price supports at 1957 levels and 2) the lard-heavy rivers-and-harbors authorization. He soon counted too many Republican noes. "I don't believe in idle gestures," said he, and gracefully helped the farm bill along to an agriculture committee that will probably let it mildew for the rest of the session. The pork-barrel bill went to the Public Works Committee...
Reider will compete in the two-mile against some of the best runners in the East. In other individual events Pat Liles and Henry Wente will enter the broad jump; Jim Doty and Dunc Johnson, the hammer; and Neil Muncaster, John deKiewiet, and Gus Moede, the discus...
Crimson coach Norman Shepard plans to call on Gerry Emmet and Dave Kipp for relief-work, if Brigham should falter. He will probably save Herb Scheiner for Friday's game against Princeton, and Byron Johnson for the Columbia contest on Saturday...
Slow Reader. In Louisville, the public library declared a week's amnesty on fines for overdue books, got one back (Boswell's Johnson) that had been checked...