Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Assembly. The vote was preceded by a bitter battle in which Hoffman was attacked by the little three-New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy, Indiana's William Jenner-for having associated with "questionable" characters, praised by Oklahoma's Mike Monroney as an "outstanding advocate of democracy." Ike's four other nominees-California's Bill Knowland, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and Red Cross President Ellsworth Bunker were approved unanimously...
...been chosen to keynote the Democratic National Convention (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Democratic National Committee Chairman Paul Butler vetoed the Press Conference appearance for fear that Clement might tell TV viewers what most already knew: Clement supports Adlai Stevenson. Instead, Rountree was able to book Montana's Democratic Senator Mike Mansfield for the show. Mansfield's big news: he, too, is for Stevenson...
...After a word from the sponsor (Corn Products Refining Co.-salad oil, syrup, cornstarch, etc.), the Attorney General of the U.S. grasped his lectern mike, crisply reported that the Department of Justice was about to start a civil action under the antitrust laws against General Motors, charging it with "unlawful activities which have given it a monopolistic position in the manufacture of buses...
Hancox scoured the area until other rescue planes arrived. Two hours later the Navy cargo ship Lt. Robert Craig plowed through the shark-filled waters where Mike Sierra went down, later radioed tersely: "Found no survivors . . . Expect to find none...
...later Long invaded a meeting of the house ways and means committee, pre-empted the committee chairman's seat, from that vantage point snatched for the microphone while his bitter antagonist, Secretary of State Martin, was talking. "No you don't, governor!" cried Martin angrily, grabbing the mike back. "You're not going to do that to me." Bawled Long, as they grappled: "You're just proving you're not fit to be insurance commissioner." "Oh, no," Martin howled back. "You're proving you should never have been governor." A few minutes later Long...