Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opposite, Eden lost his usual urbanity. His voice was almost shrill as he complained that Labor was not giving him time to speak. Shouting that he had spoken "for 30 years in this House." Eden had to appeal to the Speaker to quiet the ridicule. A Churchill would have met the hecklers with confident abuse...
After a weekend spent with his folks in Zebulon, N.C.. Margaret Truman, 32, returned to Manhattan with 43-year-old E. Clifton Daniel Jr., to be met by newsmen insistent for word of romance from them. Grinning, but ducking the big question, they taxied away together. Half an hour later, in a hastily called press conference in Independence, Mo., Papa Harry Truman gave out the happy word that Margaret was engaged to marry "Cliff" Daniel, onetime London and Moscow cor respondent and now assistant foreign editor of The New York Times. Papa Harry not only gave them his blessing...
...Groaned Hoover: "I always bet my age, too, but we got here just a minute late today. I'm 56, too!" Not long ago Beall, now 61, placed $5 on six and one, raked in a whopping $1,522.50. That same day he met a Hoover assistant. Crowed the FBI man: "The boss and I were both on it too! We've never forgotten the lesson you taught...
...started back in 1952 when Morey Bernstein, a Colorado businessman, was giving a demonstration of hypnosis after a club dance. There he met a lively young brunette named Ruth Simmons who was "on the smallish side" and a good social dancer. She also, he soon discovered, had the "ability to enter an uncommonly deep trance while under hypnosis." Despite the objection of her husband Rex ("Look, I just want to sell insurance and be a regular guy; I don't want to be dubbed a crackpot or a screwball"), Bernstein convinced her to go on a trip through her prenatal...
This form of lobbying should be met by new laws and a general tightening of present restrictions. The new regulations could be made more realistic by raising the limit on campaign expenses and making the candidate directly responsible for money spent on his behalf. Failure to observe the law should constitute grounds for expulsion from Congress. A revised law should also make it a misdemeanor to contribute to a campaign fund without informing the candidate and receiving his written acceptance of the contribution...