Word: laurelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nacionalista camp, Garcia's Running Mate Jose Laurel Jr. was equally frank and cynical. "No matter what you do," he told an audience of voters contemptuously, "the Nacionalistas will still control the Senate, so you had better vote for us because a Liberal candidate won't be able to get you anything." Young José, a second-generation Philippine politician whose father is still a potent force in the Senate, is at one and the same time the Liberals' greatest asset and their greatest liability...
...Speaker of the House of Representatives, with powers far beyond those of Sam Rayburn in Washington, Laurel exercises a firm control over the rich congressional pork barrel. Last July President Garcia "released" some $10 million of public funds to dole-hungry Nacionalista Congressmen, and he has promised another $60 million. Much of this money goes through Laurel's hands. But José is frowned upon by the church; he has an unsavory reputation as a hard drinker and a frequenter of nightclubs, where he has an irritable habit of picking on customers whose looks displease him. His victims...
...fabulous inventors. These credited Popov with the discovery of the radio and made Marconi only a thief who profitted from the fruit of Popov's searches. Zhukovskij, the "father of flying," replaced the Wright brothers, Edison also bowed out before a Russian, and so on until every epochal inventive laurel was redistributed...
...intensely conscious of her own desirability, and sauntered along as if all the bungalows were filled with rich old men peeking from behind the curtains. Apparently she was convinced that Laurel Avenue was as likely a place as any other for her to be selected for ... a life of well-financed debauchery...
Died. Oliver Norvell ("Babe") Hardy, 65, chubby, splenetic half of the inseparable team of Laurel & Hardy, who churned out (1927-45) about 300 silent and talkie slapstick films (Babes in Toyland, Way Out West, The Devil's Brother, Blockheads) ; of the effects of a paralytic stroke he had in September, 1956; in North Hollywood. Georgia-born, bulbous Ollie sang on showboats while studying law, eventually wended his way via vaudeville villainry to Hollywood where he met (1919) skinny, sad-eyed Stan Laurel, onetime understudy to Charlie Chaplin. Two of America's few genuinely creative comedians, interested more...