Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Byrd on the Floor. Most Democrats had flocked to Johnson's side with enthusiasm. Oklahoma's big Bob Kerr and Illinois' professorial Paul Douglas indulged in a colloquy designed to heap ridicule on the opposition. Douglas asked if Kerr would like to know why a part of the Eisenhower Administration's tax policy "is like the Latin verb aio."* Kerr allowed that he would. Smirked Douglas: "It is present, it is imperfect, and it has no future...
...battles against the U.S. Government; in Congress three separate bills have been introduced by Southern Democrats to remove federal price controls from gas at the wellhead. This issue-whether or not gas prices should be controlled in the field-has been burning hot ever since 1950, when the famed Kerr bill, which exempted gas producers from controls, was vetoed by President Truman...
Congratulations on the fine article [Jan. 31] on Grace Kelly. I am very glad to know she has a mind of her own as far as her career and the publicity involved are concerned. Hollywood has miscast and ruined Greer Garson . . . Deborah Kerr will probably be in the same boat soon . . . and Audrey Hepburn will probably be playing in something called The Eleanor Roosevelt Story before long. But it looks as if Miss K can take care of herself...
...company between workouts on the Schuylkill. "I wish she would go out with the more athletic type. But she doesn't listen to me anymore." Some of Grace's admirers fear that M-G-M may do to her what the studio did to Deborah Kerr-lash her down to "lady" roles and keep her there. Even after The Country Girl, the best M-G-M could think of was to assign Grace to Green Fire (which she did as her part of the bargain on Country Girl} and then offer her Quentin Durward. Grace, who sees...
...professor, meanwhile, was branching out into other fields too. In 1933 he led a faculty rebellion against the university's autocratic old chancellor, W. Jasper Kerr, ultimately forcing him to resign and splashing the name of Morse in every newspaper in Oregon. In 1936 Morse went to Washington as a special assistant to Attorney General Homer Cummings (on the recommendation of Raymond Moley) to direct a nationwide study of the administration of criminal law. In 1938 Frances Perkins appointed him West Coast maritime arbitrator, where he made a brilliant reputation as a fair and meticulous judge...