Word: jointly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over but the voting. Late that afternoon Martin, Rayburn, Johnson and Knowland held a joint press conference, announced their agreement on the 45-day, $300 compromise of a compromise of a compromise. With that lineup of congressional leadership behind it, not even the outside chance of a Southern Senate filibuster was likely to stand in the way of a civil rights bill. Washington's most knowing advocates of civil rights legislation thought it would be a good, effective law. Their reasoning: most of the acts denying Negroes in the South the right to vote are performed by men widely...
Last week the Administration set out to prove to the Senate that the argument was phony. Before the Senate Appropriations Committee went the big guns-Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, retired Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Arthur Radford. new JCS Chairman Nathan Twining, and outgoing International Cooperation Administrator John B. Hollister. They spoke eloquently, but perhaps too generally of the urgent necessity for more foreign-aid money to protect the security of the free world. But they failed to dispel the statistical myth of the "surplus" $9.5 billion...
...drove other Arab nations into common concern. One group of worried Arab powers centered around Egypt. Syria as a Russian satellite would rob Nasser of his chosen role as the leader of Arab nationalism, and play hob with all the talk of a Syria-Egypt merger and with the joint Syrian-Egyptian army command under Egypt's General Amer...
...ordered one of them to get Jimmy Hoffa, or Hoffa's St. Louis henchman, Harold Gibbons, to settle one of the many New York Teamster problems. The committee heard enough to conclude that Tony Ducks, as well as Mobster Johnny Dio, helped rig the key Teamster election in Joint Council 16, and that he even planned to offer beleaguered President Martin Lacey $10,000 a year to move over and leave the spot for Hoffa's man, Johnny O'Rourke...
...himself a frank appraisal, found his face looking like a "leftover artichoke," his teeth "dropping like loose buttons," his body "convex where it should be concave-or have I got my cons mixed?" He had a high old time with his waitress (Sarah Marshall) in a Greenwich Village spaghetti joint, enjoyed a good cry and a good talk "about everything from her cradle to my grave." Seeing things at last as they are "without the neon nimbus," he of course went home to a forgiving wife and a plain little moral: "Life itself gets a little dusty-even rusty...