Word: junior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...really disliked New Jersey's junior U.S. Senator, Robert Hendrickson, but he was considered a political deadweight. Private polls showed that he could not win the general election in November, and perhaps not even the primary. The G.O.P. turned on the pressure, urged him to withdraw in favor of able ex-Congressman Clifford Case. Finally, party leaders told Hendrickson bluntly that he must go -but let him know that such unselfish sacrifice would not be forgotten. Hurt, and a little bewildered, Hendrickson withdrew this spring. Thus Case was assured the Republican nomination...
...built four new junior colleges, reorganized the city's trade schools, upped teacher salaries from an average $4,200 to $5,400. Most important, he has kept his optimism. "You see." says he. "our school system is the biggest thing the country has to offer. Most of the troubles I can take in stride because it's part...
...featured speaker of the day, the junior Senator from Kentucky, arrived late, after a chartered flight across the state and a hard drive up the mountainside. The day before, after a busy week in Washington, John Sherman Cooper had flown to Owensboro on the Ohio River for a busier day at the state VFW encampment. That night Republican Cooper and the Democrat who is running against him, grizzled old Alben Barkley, had spoken at a sweltering, shirtsleeve banquet (the 106-degree temperature, said a native, was not as hot as hell; it was as hot as hackydam -four miles below...
...oldest hands in the Senate, North Dakota's cantankerous Bill Langer, who thought she had done a fine job of presenting her case, but hoped "that before adjournment she will have completely changed her mind." Mrs. Bowring stood her ground: "In connection with [that] hope . . . the junior Senator from Nebraska may perhaps be as inflexible as the senior Senator from North Dakota...
Stargazing. A Junior Planetarium that projects 40 major constellations and 300 stars on the ceiling and walls of a darkened room is being sold by Harmonic Reed Corp. of Rosemont, Pa. The midget planetarium can be adjusted to different latitudes and dates, can simulate the nightly sweep of the stars. Price...