Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mike Monroney held his press conferences in the back of a furniture store named Doc and Bill's, which he had inherited from his father. For the past twelve years he had been a Congressman; now he was trying to take Elmer's Senate seat away from...
With a quizzical quirk of his wide mouth, Mike Monroney told Oklahoma voters, "If I haven't done anything else, I'm getting Elmer Thomas acquainted with his own state...
...Page One. Aimer Stilwell Monroney (he legally changed his name to Mike when he entered politics) had earned a reputation as a sound moderate who helped put through the first real reform of Congress' rusty machinery in 25 years. Generally Fair-Dealing, he had voted for Taft-Hartley, but opposed the Brannan Plan. Though he comes from a state where oil wells are drilled even on the Capitol grounds, he voted against an oilmen's bill to raise oil price controls...
...also a way of telling the Russians what was what. When Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson and Washington newsmen were discussing the U.S. decision to draw a defense line in front of Formosa, Japan and the Philippines, Johnson looked around and asked: "Is the Tass man here?" Mikhail ("Mike") Fedorov of Russia's Tass news agency quickly turned and walked away, shaking his lowered head in evident embarrassment. "He heard what you said," a newsman told the Secretary. Replied Johnson: "That's all right. I wanted him to hear that we had drawn the line. That...
Michael Todd's Peep Show is one of those torrid salutes to sex that are considered especially well suited to hot weather. Naturally, it tends to differ from anyone else's peep show, for in recent years nobody has equaled Producer Mike Todd at making burlesque resplendent, respectable and remunerative on Broadway. Of legs and the girl he sings, believing that for many a customer the lure of the female form outranks anything devisable by the human brain. Nonetheless, in show business the human brain can be a help; and Peep Show needs a terrible lot of helping...