Word: martin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MARGARET MARTIN Moultrie...
Nervous Kibitzers. The Democratic strategy was successful in upsetting nearly all Republican alignments. Some Old Guardsmen, e.g., New York's Representative Dan Reed, the ranking G.O.P. member of the Ways and Means Committee, and Pennsylvania's Ed Martin, chilly in the past toward the Eisenhower Administration, now found themselves backing Ike in his refusal to push the panic button. Yet many devoted Eisenhower Republicans found themselves nervously eyeing the Administration's play of the hand. Among them: New Jersey's Clifford Case, New York's Jack Javits, and Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper...
Behind the new action-now program was a growing impatience by such venturesome Cabinet members as Interior Secretary Fred Seaton, Labor Secretary James Mitchell, Defense Secretary Neil McElroy. Attorney General Bill Rogers and Vice President Nixon with the pacing of antirecession moves. In his letter to Knowland and Martin, the President hit out at Democrats, without calling any actual names, for the "sudden upsurge of pump-priming schemes" put forward by persons lacking "faith in the inherent vitality of our free economy and in the American as an individual." But all in all, the new policy marked a notable shift...
...some tourist tips for his coming trip to the U.S.S.R.-"I will give you my assurance that you will be welcome everywhere." He began to touch bases on Capitol Hill, calling one by one upon Democrats Lyndon Baines Johnson, Mike Mansfield, Sam Rayburn, Republicans William F. Knowland and Joe Martin, even dropping in one day last week to see Ohio's Republican Representative William H. Ayres, who had written to ask if it would be all right to show some G.O.P. ladies around the Soviet embassy. Answer: Sure. Says Menshikov about the Soviet embassy: "Even schoolchildren come here...
...Helen Hayes gave the critic a huge silver tray inscribed with the names of all 130 guests, some of whom had not spoken to each other for years. Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz composed a song for the occasion ("A critic has a mother, Just like anybody else"). Mary Martin sang I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy with Composer Richard Rodgers at the piano. Oscar Hammerstein II was master of ceremonies. In their boss's honor, Times drama staffers replated the Sunday theater section for a limited edition with every story on the page about Atkinson...