Word: madisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MITZENBERG Madison...
...This Is Madness!" Adlai Stevenson was not impressed. In his speech in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden he called again for an agreement with Russia to end H-bomb tests, added afterward that 270 scientists support his position. He quoted Pope Pius XII on the fearful prospects of nuclear war ("a pall of death over pulverized ruins covering countless victims with limbs burned, twisted and scattered while others groan in their death agony").* Said Adlai: "Our arsenal of hydrogen bombs and other weapons is enough to deface the earth. Our stockpile continues to grow...
Professional Scowl. He turned his professional scowl on a big crowd in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden Tuesday night. There, before 18,000 whooping party faithful, he called Nixon "President Eisenhower's hand-picked heir," got a thunderous no from his audience when he asked if Nixon was the man to whom the U.S. wanted to entrust "the great decisions about the H-bomb." He challenged the Administration's handling of the Suez Canal crisis and the Middle East situation, asserting that Russia's influence there is at a peak, that "the rising fires of Arab...
Lonely Hearts. The tabloid Napoleon, who sometimes propped his hand in his vest, waged the war for circulation (goal: 1,000,000) with stunts and sensations. The Graphic gave toys to the poor in Central Park, filled Madison Square Garden with a "Lonely Hearts Ball." The lonely hearts project was dropped within a year, when a woman deposited a baby on Gauvreau's desk and asked what he proposed to do about it. It had happened after the ball, she said...
...Stevenson is interested in the little man," he said, "but he is not a Madison Avenue product who appeals to the personality cult." He contrasted this to the incumbent government, "run by a Big Business outfit that favors the "big against the small...