Word: misters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MASSACHUSETTS' JOHN MCCORMACK, 67, was elected Democratic floor leader the same month -September, 1940 -that Mister Sam became Speaker (during the two Republican Congresses since then, Rayburn became floor leader, McCormack Democratic whip). Boston-born John McCormack, a cigar-munching teetotaler, was left fatherless at 13, shined shoes, ran errands, earned his way through night law school, was elected to the House in 1928. He is a hard-knuckled politician from one of the hardest knuckled of all political schools: Massachusetts' Twelfth Congressional District. More than half Irish, the Twelfth takes in ten dingy, crowded...
Indeed, the whole direction of the Congress can be changed by the committee assignments. The House has long behaved much more responsibly than the Senate on reciprocal trade -mostly because Mister Sam has a flat rule against electing anyone to Ways & Means who is not "safe" on the subject. This year, as the result of a deliberate Rayburn-Mills effort, the Education & Labor Committee, for many years controlled by a mossback conservative coalition, has a moderate-liberal majority, may soon become more than a society for discussing the iniquities of Walter Reuther...
...What then?" I asked. "Oh Kurtz will be fine, Mister Kurtz...
...Here, Slob." Something about the way Shelley speaks-a profession of diffidence, a perfection of timing-suggests that everyone in the audience shares his feeling. And as simply as that, Shelley puts Mister Kelly's Chicago nightclub or Mr. Sullivan's fans in his pocket...
Snapped DuBois: "Mister whatever-his-bloody-name-is-this Kaffir-has never even sent in a formal application. And if he had, it would have been turned down." Reminded of Muleya's record, he added scornfully, "We do not count Kaffirs' performances...