Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such, he was beyond question the U.S. Senate's most influential employee. He had been a particular protege of the Senate's two most powerful Democrats -Oklahoma's late Senator Robert Kerr and longtime Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. Baker made it his unending business to know things-and what he didn't know about the Senate and its members probably was not worth the trouble. He knew who was against what bill and why. He knew who was drunk. He knew who was out of town. He knew who was sleeping with whom. He influenced committee...
...were to be come the most powerful of Senate Democrats entered the hallowed cham ber. They were Lyndon Johnson of Texas and Robert Kerr of Oklahoma. Bobby Baker spotted them as real comers-and he made certain that they saw him the same way. The relationship with Kerr was cemented first; before very long Kerr was tipping Baker to profitable stock investments, something that the tough, rough oil millionaire did for few others. Next, Baker ingratiated himself with Johnson. Recalls a former Johnson staffer of Baker: "He was an unabashed lackey, a bootlicker. He'd think of all manner...
...BANKING. Baker got a seemingly inexhaustible line of credit through Bob Kerr's Fidelity National Bank in Oklahoma City. During 1962, Friend Fred Black Jr. testified, he and Baker borrowed more than $500,000 from Fidelity National, much of the money going to finance operations of Serv-U Corp. Through Baker's friendship with Kerr, Black said, he was able to borrow large sums. In 1962 he got one loan for $175,000 to purchase stock in the Farmers & Merchants State Bank in Tulsa, subsequently sold 1,500 shares to Edward Levinson and 1,600 shares...
Landed Leader. "Let me tell you about Sandy Dennis," wrote Walter Kerr in his review of Any Wednesday. "There should be one in every home." He has spoken for men everywhere. Sandy has gold hair, green eyes, a high forehead, a pouting mouth and perhaps four extra teeth, and she is so cute that she makes a fundamentally sleazy story seem like the cliche parabola of innocent love. At least, that is how the boys...
...ground is the field of unanswerable questions, particularly if they concern the private lives of the authors." Finally, Auden says, "jolliest of them all is the maniac. The commonest of his kind is the man who believes that poetry is written in cyphers... My favorite is the John Bellendon Kerr who set out to prove that English nursery rhymes were originally written in a form of Old Dutch invented by himself...