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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oklahoma, Mike Monroney was an overwhelming winner over the Rev. Bill Alexander, pastor turned circus-style politician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Senate | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...This is an Office of Civilian Defense sound truck," he cried into the mike. "Unidentified airplanes approaching New York City. All residents black out. Prepare for atomic attack!" Then he turned up the amplifier volume, producing a sirenlike screaming sound. The windows of the Gordons' third-floor apartment-like those of most of the apartments around it-were open. The results of his announcement on the teeming Bronx exceeded Stanley's fondest expectations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Everybody Take Shelter! | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...class by itself is Mike Todd's Peep Show (Winter Gardon, B'way and 50th), which features a lot of near naked girls in a rough and boisterous show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glittering Gotham Beckons to Pleasure Seekers | 11/10/1950 | See Source »

Other early victories for the Democratic slate included those of incumbents Carl Hayden of Arizona and Mike Monroney of Oklahoma in the Southwest, and Brien MacMahon of Connecticut and Governor John O. Pastore of Rhode Island...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Democrats Keep Congress; Lucas, Tydings, Myers Lose | 11/8/1950 | See Source »

...build his new restaurant, Mike is raising $200,000 from some of the same friends who started him in business. Apparently they share his conviction that the same old crowd will still flock to the new Romanoff's. Says Mike: "I'm very good for a lot of people. They feel they are better than I, and people have a desire to feel they are better than someone else. Resentment? I accept it as I do the weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mike's Place | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

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