Word: kensett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Malarkey. A bland, stocky native of Kensett (pop. 905), Democrat Mills, 58, maintains that the tax bill is not languishing in his committee because of his personal opposition. "The Administration," he told TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil last week, "can have a vote any time. The fact is that they don't have the votes to pass the bill in the House. If I wanted to, I couldn't pass it." Congressional liaison men from the White House and legislative leaders of both parties agree that the House overwhelmingly opposes the tax bill. Republican Leader Jerry Ford believes that...
Breaking the old monotony of statesman portraits, Mrs. Kennedy's undertaking has brought to the White House many fine nonportrait paintings. There are still lifes by the Peales of Philadelphia, the U.S.'s first painting family. A porthole painting of Niagara Falls by John Kensett, a member of the Hudson River school, is typical of the characteristic U.S. landscape style in which the vista is distant and changeless...
...seemed as if the two most important seats of power in the U.S. were the temporary White House in a Palm Beach mansion and Congressman Mills's office in the basement of the post office in Searcy, Ark., just a hoot and a holler from his home town of Kensett...
Feathers & Squawk. In Kensett, Ark., where Mills grew up, his father was one of the most prosperous men in town, owner of a busy country store that sold everything from horehound drops to horse collars. (Mills's mother, 77, still helps run the store.) Later on, Ardra Mills acquired a cotton gin and an interest in the local bank. Wilbur worked in the store during his boyhood, but early in life he was struck with awed admiration of William A. Oldfield, the bouncy, genial Congressman from the district. In his travels around his constituency, Oldfield frequently visited Kensett and stopped...
...Kensett, Arkansas, where Mills was raised, is said to have got its name when a Missouri Pacific agent, seeking advice about a railroad station site, was told: "You ken set it hyar or you ken set it thar." Mills's Second Arkansas District abounds in picturesque place names: Morning Sun is 75 miles from Evening Shade, and other places are named Joy. Romance, Rose Bud and Oil Trough. The son of a prosperous Kensett merchant and banker, Mills was sent to Harvard Law School, returned home to a job in his father's Kensett State Bank...