Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...excellent article on Minnesota's Senator Humphrey [TIME, Jan. 17] leaves some hard questions unanswered. Assuming that he is "too cocky, too slick, too shallow, too ambitious, a brain-picker rather than a scholar, clever without being wise," is he not just another Senator Claghorn with a "new look"? Is modern statecraft so simple an art that it can be mastered by one who learns his economics from South Dakota dust storms, and campaigns by visiting all the county fairs and eating hot dogs until they "come out of his ears...
...week in the White House Cabinet room, Harry Truman's top labor advisers worked on the Administration's labor bill. Five Cabinet members at one time or other sat in on the sessions. When they were done, A.F.L. and C.I.O. leaders were called in to have a look at it. After all, Harry Truman had made a campaign promise to labor-to kill the Taft-Hartley law, which the unions had branded the "slave labor law." The union men looked over Truman's new bill, and didn't like the provision for federal injunctions, in strikes...
With the session barely under way, the House was beginning to look like a progressive-school kindergarten. One day last week, New York Democrat Andrew Somers, who has been around the House long enough (24 years) to know better, shouted "idiot" at Nebraska Republican Arthur Miller. Speaker Sam Rayburn was determined to enforce decorum before his 89 freshmen could pick up such uncouth habits. He got the House's Emily Post, professorial Representative George Dondero of Michigan, to lecture the boys...
...from Communist areas was sprinkled with red paper signs asking health & wealth from the gods. An old man who had fled Suchow three months ago tapped tobacco from some cigarette butts into his pipe and said: "At home in Suchow I would be burning incense to the gods. Now look...
Heifetz had mostly spent his leave just relaxing in his Beverly Hills home with his pretty wife and his new son Joseph, born last September. He had also "taken a good look at myself," discovered that he had played some works so often that in recent years he found it hard not to play them by rote-"without thinking...