Word: masters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...possible and how to accomplish it. He does not waste time on lost causes. He realizes that hot issues are rarely settled by victory for the extremists on either side. Always willing to give a little in return for a lot, Johnson is the Senate's acknowledged master at charting the paths of accommodation and compromise. He is contemptuous of the crusaders and windmill tilters among his colleagues. "All they do is fight, fight, fight," he says, "and get 15 Senate votes." As for himself: "I would rather win a convert than an argument...
...doing last week was, in a broad sense, exactly what he had been doing since he assumed the Democratic Senate leadership five years before: devoting all his energy to building a record for the Democratic Party in a Republican Administration and, what he considers synonymous, the record of a master legislative craftsman, Lyndon Baines Johnson...
...conference of seven other African nations. Last week he accepted President Eisenhower's invitation to pay an official visit to Washington next July. After graduating in 1939 from Lincoln University in Oxford, Pa., Nkrumah won a bachelor of theology degree from the same university, and later took a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. "It will give me the greatest pleasure," said Nkrumah. "to visit the United States, where I spent the greater part of my university life...
...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 and carrying his name in the headline. Shy Critic Atkinson was even moved to make the evening's shortest (two minutes...
...whom Ben Hecht dubbed "The White Fang" ran Columbia as if he were the master of an ancient trireme. He had no illusions about his popularity-and cared less. "If you print anything good about me," he once told a reporter, "nobody will believe it." He got the most out of his staff by forcing them to defend their ideas against withering blasts of personal abuse, vulgarity and threats, on the theory that only the best ideas could withstand such a test. His methods paid off. While other film companies were bending under the Depression, Columbia showed increasing profits...