Word: missourian
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...ever. The road is 100% dieselized, with $342 million worth of new cars, locomotives and other facilities added between 1946 and 1955. It has netted more than $11 million in 1954, and its freight cars are younger than the national average. Appointed as new president: Paul J. Neff, a Missourian who has been with MoPac or its subsidiaries since 1926 and who has actually been running the road since 1946 as chief executive officer...
...best ways to stir up a Congressman is to reject or to cut the appropriations he wants. In this session of Congress no one has refused and cut more than crusty old (76) Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Last week the House cut back at Missourian Cannon...
...scenes in the Democratic Convention of 1912 to help his father wrest the presidential nomination away from Woodrow Wilson. During his twelve years in the Senate, Clark alternately fought and supported the New Deal, in 1945 accepted an appointment to a U.S. circuit judgeship from Good Friend and Fellow Missourian Harry S. Truman, best man at Clark's second marriage...
Ever since his days as Harry Truman's Secretary of the Air Force, Missourian Stuart Symington has been a man with a mission. A kind of national gadfly, he has stung the U.S. conscience with ominous reminders of the growth of Soviet military power. Last week, in Philadelphia, Freshman Senator Symington charged that the U.S. Government itself had soft-pedaled the Russian threat. Said he: "It is a sad fact that for a long time some of our national leaders-in both parties-have not told us the whole brutal truth about the world in which we live...
...Rear Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, a Missourian, became newborn CIA's first director in 1947. General Walter Bedell Smith succeeded...