Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result of the whole fracas was that not even Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson's priority order was enough to get Fulbright's bill out of committee without a humiliating compromise. By an 8-to-5 vote, the committee rammed down Fulbright's throat a resolution making area assistance. Douglas-Payne style, the first order of business after the Fulbright measure...
Storm & Stares. Pennsylvania's storm damage was the worst in 40 years. Somehow all the misery came to focus in a Howard Johnson's restaurant on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, just 50 miles from Philadelphia, where snow strangled every moving object, turned the road into a quilted graveyard of cars. Stranded motorists wedged out of their vehicles and headed for shelter. The lucky ones found their way to the restaurant, where they waited uncomprehendingly-first a dozen, then 20, then 100. Within a few hours, more than 800 people milled about the soda fountain, boiler room, and garage, clamoring...
...last a few Air Force helicopters whirled in to remove some of the ailing. Then police and snow-plow crews broke through. After 36 harrowing hours, the trapped 800 mushed on their way, mumbling incoherently the never-to-be-forgotten names of Howard Johnson's 28 delicious ice-cream flavors. Before most of them got home, the snow had stopped. The sun was shining...
Democratic dreams of the day, as told by Massachusetts' presidentially hopeful Senator John Kennedy about himself, Missouri's equally hopeful Senator Stuart Symington, and power-playing Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas...
...Democratic presidential nominee in 1960. What's more, you'll be elected.' I told Stu Symington about my dream. 'Funny thing,' said Stu, 'I had exactly the same dream about myself.' We both told our dreams to Lyndon Johnson. Said Lyndon: 'That's funny-for the life of me I can't remember tapping either of you boys...