Word: mccormack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people, and someone was always using the party line. Besides, she had to face the laundry stacked beside the hand-powered washing machine. That evening, Mr. U.S. got home to find his wife so exhausted that she fell asleep after supper while listening to the tenor of John McCormack scratching out of the Victrola that stood in the light of the flickering gas lamps in the living room...
...block off balconies, reducing the house from 4,000 to 3,000 seats) and a stage that could slide out to cover two-thirds of the orchestra. The acoustics were superb. "I would rather sing in the Auditorium than in any other hall in the world," said Tenor John McCormack, and Soprano Nellie Melba wished that she could "fold it up and take it with me everywhere...
Died. Clare E. Hoffman, 92, long-time (1935-63) Republican Congressman from Michigan; of pneumonia; in Allegan, Mich. Hoffman generated so much bile over F.D.R., the New Deal, organized labor, and U.S. internationalism that even fellow Republicans were uneasy in his terrible-tongued presence, and Massachusetts' Democrat John McCormack was once moved to remark: ''I hold all my colleagues in highest esteem. I hold the gentleman from Michigan in my minimum-highest esteem...
...overwhelming cooperation. Radicals joined with Kennedy liberals to support LBJ, believing that underneath his assertion to "support all the people," there was a resolve to start a liberal revolution. While Harvard SDS worked for Johnson, they also supported independent Noel Day in his campaign to unseat House Speaker John McCormack. Their campaign slogan expressed the radical mood: "Part of the Way with LBJ; the Rest of the Way with Noel...
That uncertainty was reflected in Administration and congressional reaction. Speaker John McCormack ordered the House of Representatives locked up for fear of invasion; white-gloved patrols circled major Government buildings in the area. While Lyndon Johnson stayed in the White House, his gates were heavily guarded and he pointedly maintained a business-as-usual schedule-having earlier found time to sign a bill levying stiff penalties for illegal demonstrations in the capital. On a lesser level, but more frantically, the workhouse division of the capital's Department of Corrections prepared space and meals for 2,000 potential arrestees...