Word: kerrs
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...Mills report blunted the politicking efforts by Senate Finance Committee Democrats-especially Oklahoma's Democratic Oilman-Senator Robert S. Kerr-to brand the tight-money policy as a national calamity. In questioning Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey on Capitol Hill last week, Kerr nagged and niggled for three days without denting Humphrey's basic defense. The Secretary admitted that tight money had pained some borrowers and would-be borrowers. He also admitted that high interest rates had upped the cost of carrying the national debt. But he would not be swerved from his (and the Mills reports...
...Allen Frear Jr., Georgia's Richard B. Russell and Herman E. Talmadge, Louisiana's Allen J. Ellen-der and Russell B. Long, Mississippi's James O. Eastland and John Stennis, Nevada's Alan Bible, New Mexico's Dennis Chavez, Oklahoma's Robert S. Kerr, Oregon's Wayne Morse, South Carolina's Olin D. Johnston and Strom Thurmond, Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd and A. Willis Robertson, and Wyoming's Joseph C. O'Mahoney. Paired against the bill: North Carolina's Sam J. Ervin...
...which the authors of the Constitution could not even imagine." The ten who will examine those consequences: Columbia University's Law Professor Adolph A. Berle Jr., Editor Henry R. Luce, Philosopher Scott Buchanan, University of California's Political Scientist Eugene Burdick, Princeton Historian Eric Goldman, Chancellor Clark Kerr of the University of California, Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray, Nobel Physicist Isidor I. Rabi, University of Chicago Anthropologist Robert Redfield, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr...
...month when Ed Murrow will have our time on CBS." How will Crosby's readers get critical coverage of Seven Lively Arts, one of the new season's major shows? Well, Crosby thinks he may get somebody like the Herald Tribune's Drama Critic Walter Kerr to review it for him. One added complication: Critic Kerr works on the side for the competing Omnibus as dramatic consultant and sometime performer...
Returning to Washington after a ten-day holiday in Oklahoma, Senator Robert Samuel Kerr put a meaty forefinger on the mood of the reconvening Congress: "There's as much opportunity to achieve greatness by what you don't do as by what you do." Like many another Senator and Representative home on recess, Bob Kerr had tested political currents and come away with a spine-tingling shock. Around the nation at all levels people were hellbent on economy-and on not much congressional action beyond that. One senior Senator summed up his constituents' advice in seven succinct...