Word: mckay
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Columnist Drew Pearson last week tried to revive the Al Sarena investigation. He wrote that President Eisenhower had personally intervened with Interior Secretary Douglas McKay on behalf of the mine's owners. In the Senate Interior Committee files, Pearson claimed, was a letter with a marginal notation in the President's handwriting, asking McKay "to see what he could do about granting" Al Sarena's request. That day the committee scurried through its files in search of the letter. It was not located for the reason that it did not exist. White House Press Secretary James Hagerty...
Killed in a 1947 plane crash were Oregon's Republican Governor Earl Snell, his secretary of state and the president of the state senate. The tragedy left a void at the very top of Oregon Republicanism-a void soon filled by State Senator Douglas McKay, who ran for governor in an off-year election and won. Patterson also moved up, although at a slower pace than McKay. In 1951 Patterson was elected senate president, and, since that position stands second in Oregon's line of succession, became governor when McKay resigned to go to Washington as Eisenhower...
...agree with Douglas McKay that the cost of bringing the Cabinet members to Camp David was probably "too much" [Dec. 5]. I was very much upset by such extravagance...
Dulles, 67, leaped athletically from the craft, landing ankle-deep in ooze. Presidential Aide Sherman Adams, pale-faced but game, grunted: "Very nice trip." Lifted up from Washington next day, some Cabinet members were less game. Douglas McKay said he had spent the trip trying to estimate what a helicopter costs, concluded that it was "probably too much." Said White House Aide Fred Seaton: "They ought to give them to the farmers to flail wheat." Remarked Sinclair Weeks (who came by car): "I'd just as soon ride in a boiler factory." "Gratitude & Appreciation." Despite the unsettling side...
...Moscow theater, French existentialist Playwright Jean-Paul Sartre's The Respectful Prostitute, with some minor changes made by Political Mugwump Sartre himself, was regaling Soviet audiences, but hiding behind the odd alias of Lizzie McKay. Reason for the title change, according to Sartre's secretary: "There is no good Russian equivalent for 'respectful prostitute...