Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week was what could have been expected from weary, uninspired, somewhat scared men. Tempers flared in the Senate one midnight when Majority Leader Knowland tried to postpone the final farm-bill vote, and when South Carolina's Olin Johnston tried to attach a civil-service pay raise to California's Santa Maria River project. But in the last minute helter-skelter, it was remarkable that the Communist outlaw bill (see below) was the only piece of political deviltry to be jammed into enactment...
...first homesteader: Union Soldier Daniel Freeman, on Jan. 1, 1863. A few minutes after the law came into effect at midnight, he dragged a protesting land registrar from a New Year's Eve dance to file his claim at Beatrice, Neb., later built a log cabin for his family and planted 400 peach trees on his 160-acre quarter section. Typically, Interior has since reclaimed the claim. Now it's Homestead National Monument...
...Placerville, Calif., a cop succeeded where many an oldtime American League catcher had failed: he caught baseball's famed Georgia Peach, Ty Cobb, 67, trying to steal home (to nearby Nevada). Booked for drunken driving and having no license, Midnight Rider Cobb was soon sprung on $315 bail...
...cannot ever resign . . . I intend to draw on the knowledge and background he has in Communism. The most brilliant young man I've ever known is always going to be available, and called upon very, very often for help and advice." It was nearly midnight, and the room was heavy with eye-stinging smoke when Rabbi Schultz rose to introduce the Junior Hero. Said Schultz: "The plain people know the loss of Cohn is like the loss of a dozen battleships...
...nearly midnight when Oregon's Wayne Morse, the wind-blown work horse of the filibuster, introduced an amendment to regulate the price of nuclear materials. Knowland made a motion to table, which carried. Morse arose, a red carnation in his buttonhole, to retaliate. He said: "My colleagues in the Senate can now go to bed, because I am going to talk to the country for a few hours." He talked until 12:22 p.m. the next day. But Lyndon Johnson still had control of the Democrats. When Morse ran down, there was only desultory debate. That night the Senate...