Word: millard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terrible-tempered star performer was in top form, churlishly contemptuous of questioners and questions. Lean, sarcastic Senator Millard Tydings put oldster Ickes in the witness chair for cross-examination of his testimony about the nub of the Pauley case: the "rawest proposition" which Harold Ickes said Democratic National Treasurer Ed Pauley had made to him about tidelands oil and campaign contributions (TIME...
...Tallahassee, Florida's Governor Millard Caldwell had his own say about a similar problem. Three months ago a Negro named Jesse James Payne, under indictment for attempted rape of a five-year-old girl, had been taken from an unguarded jail and shot to death by a mob. Asked whether he considered this a lynching, Governor Caldwell replied that...
Later he teamed with Idaho's Senator Glen Taylor against Maryland's Millard Tydings and Arkansas' J. William Fulbright at pitching horseshoes. The Missouri southpaw's side lost, 20-to-21. A seaplane brought official papers for the President. He sat under a poplar tree, read them, signed some. Then he went inside. There was a poker game in full blast and three tables of continuous bridge...
Into the White House last week, fresh from his hurry-up trip to the Philippines (TIME, June 11), rushed Maryland's lean Senator Millard Tydings. With him, he brought a program for those unhappy islands...
After six days of picking his way through Manila's rubble in the heavy heat of Luzon, Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings, the Senate's expert on U.S. territories, abruptly emplaned for home. He had come with greying, ailing President Sergio Osmeña, back on his native soil after a two-month sojourn in the U.S. He had conferred with General Douglas MacArthur; he had pledged "fair and generous" treatment to the near-bankrupt Philippines during their transition period toward independence (to be granted by July...