Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...welcomed its three new members from the 50th state. In the flip of a silver dollar to decide whether Republican Hiram L. Fong, first man of Chinese ancestry to sit in Congress, or Democrat Oren E. Long would rank as Hawaii's senior Senator, Long called heads and lost. In a draw to determine which would get the long term, Fong won again. Over in the House, Democrat Daniel K. Inouye, World War II hero whose right arm was shattered by a German grenade in Italy, took his seat as Hawaii's sole Representative, became the first...
Grand Design. Even Wilbur Mills's friends admit that he is partly to blame for his committee's ineffectuality this year. By overcautiously trying to win Republican agreement before bringing proposals to a committee vote, he has lost Democratic backing. In operating too much on his own, he has failed to collect the committee's fragmented Democratic majority into a united front. By failing to canvass committee members with sufficient care, he has frequently misjudged how they would vote...
...convention, an attempt was made for the tenth straight year to force the 40 & 8 to accept nonwhites-and for the first time the motion came to a floor vote. Pushing hardest behind it were the Legion's California delegates: the Santa Clara chapter of 40 & 8 had lost its charter after admitting an American of Chinese ancestry. In the 90° temperature of Minneapolis Auditorium, the oratory came to a boil. "Those who would introduce bigotry in our organization," cried the Rev. Edward Goodwin, chaplain of the Hawaiian Department, "are bastards of Satan!" But when all the shouting...
...capita income and educational spending, last week took its place in the political scale. Winner of the Democratic nomination for Governor (and automatic election next November) was as bitter a racist as inhabits the nation, Ross Robert Barnett, 61, who had tried for Governor twice before and lost, won this time by a vote of 230,000 to 195,000 over Lieutenant Governor Carroll Gartin, mostly on the basis of statements such as: "The Negro is different because God made him different to punish him. His forehead slants back. His nose is different. His lips are different, and his color...
...stay at the Carlton in Cannes? One guest kept three Chihuahuas on leash, another rushed in and out with a live leopard in his arms, and neither attracted much attention. Monte Carlo's sprawling Hotel de Paris had its rooms filled with idle maharajas, well-to-do Americans, lost Frenchmen. Nice's Hôtel Negresco welcomed financiers who kept the switchboard busy with their calls to brokers in Paris, London and New York...