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...Hope, as well as all traveling celebrities, Block's prime job is to localize gags so as to take comic advantage of particular localities. Thus, when Hope referred to a North African native woman as "a Lister bag* with legs on," the boys in North Africa howled...
...jumped Democratic Whip Lister Hill: "I think the Senate is entitled to information...
...last week the Senate stood in recess. North Carolina's Joe Bailey and Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar stayed on the floor. But most Southern members were conspicuously absent. Escorted by a committee of four, including Alabama's Lister Hill, a slender, smiling Negro entered the Senate chamber, mounted the rostrum. The members of his party were ushered to their seats. Then Vice President Henry Wallace introduced him: "Members of the Senate, ladies and gentlemen, I introduce to you the President of Liberia...
...Senate Considers. The National Education Association was doing what it could about it. Secretary Givens was in Washington last week leading the fight for a Senate bill sponsored by Utah's Elbert D. Thomas and Alabama's Lister Hill. Major features: a federal fund of $200,000,000 for each emergency year to pay teachers' salaries; a permanent federal fund of $100,000,000 annually to help relatively poor states raise educational levels. The bill would increase teachers' salaries, bar cuts in state school budgets, leave distribution of federal funds to state authorities, forbid Federal control...
...Washington to begin discussions on policy (see p. 9). four U.S. Senators prepared to send another declaration to the world. Again it took the form of a Senate resolution, but it differed mightily from Senator Lodge's. It bore the names of two Democrats-Alabama's Lister Hill, New Mexico's Carl Hatch-and two Republicans-Minnesota's Joseph H. Ball and Ohio's Harold Burton...