Word: mister
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Week. Encouraged, perhaps, by the "Mister," Guinness applied to the Fay Compton Studio of Dramatic Art and somehow won a two-year scholarship. But could he afford to take it? His education fund allowed him 25 shillings (then $6.25) a week. By eating one meal a day (usually baked beans on toast), he managed to survive, and even to see a regular Saturday matinee. At school he worked hard; after hours, he tailed pedestrians all over London, mimicking their gait and gestures; and at the annual recital, the judges-Actor Gielgud among them-gave him a top prize...
There were a few hysterical Democratic outbursts. House Majority Leader John McCormack cried: "This recession was deliberately planned and put into operation by the Republican Administration." But the general Democratic strategy had been coldly planned and was coldly executed by Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson and "Mister Sam" Rayburn. Its essentials: 1) let the Eisenhower Administration move first on tax cuts; the longer Ike waits, figure Democrats, the more laggard his party will appear; then 2) bump all Republican bets with a whopping Democratic tax slash aimed mostly at relief for middle-and lower-income workers, i.e., most U.S. voters. Meanwhile...
...Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn, 76, wanted, instead of a constitutional amendment, was a simple congressional statute that would give Congress the dominant voice in deciding whether a President is disabled and whether a Vice President ought to take over as Acting President. And after two hours of hot opposition to Mister Sam's ukase, the Judiciary Committee last week voted to send even the Celler version of the Mister Sam plan back to subcommittee for more study and the whole disability issue back for more delay. Said Celler: "This kills...
...event of presidential disability (TIME, March 17). But doubts were mounting about whether the amendment would ever get the needed two-thirds majority in the Senate and House. Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson was noncommittal. One key reason: the great weight Johnson places on the opinions of his fellow Texan, Mister...
...Mister Sam's stubborn stand left chances for action on presidential disability this session at something close to zero. And that also left the nation's security against chaos-by-disability resting solely upon the Eisenhower-Nixon agreement, which Mister Sam derides, with the prestige he has piled up in 45 years in the House and 13 years as Speaker, as little more than a scrap of paper...