Word: lowan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year), an extra $100 a year for airmail and special-delivery stamps, and an 11% increase in telegraph and long-distance-telephone allowances. Republican Gross failed in his efforts to force roll-call votes, but did set off some verbal fireworks. After a scathing attack by the lowan on congressional spending, including junkets abroad, North Carolina Democrat Harold D. Cooley snapped: "You sit back here and snipe year after year. If you don't want to go, why don't you just shut up?" Retorted Gross: "I'm going to continue to snipe at all junketing organizations...
...resurrection is the work of David E. Archie, 35, an Iowa journalist and part-time history buff. Last year, poring over back copies of Harper's Weekly in search of picture material for The lowan, a bimonthly magazine that he publishes in Shenandoah, Archie decided that Harper's authentic record of the Civil War might bear repetition during the war's centennial years. When a test mailing drew an enthusiastic response, he was in business...
...organization got its present Spanish-colonial-style headquarters in Washington and a permanent secretariat, the Pan American Union. It then began a three-decade period of drowsy eclipse. For 26 years it was run as an international banqueting society by Director General Leo S. Rowe, a penny-pinching lowan who invariably served lamb stew to hold down overhead...