Word: motions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus fortified, Knowland rose on the Senate floor to move for a fortnight's postponement. Immediately. Straw Boss Mansfield took the floor, moved to table (i.e., kill) Knowland's motion, thereupon brought on a vote. Mike Mansfield's motion lost 41-36 (39 Republicans, plus Virginia's Harry Byrd and Ohio's Frank Lausche. voting against it), with Lyndon Johnson and twelve other sorely needed Democrats absent...
...Dictator Accepts. Every right hand in the hall except Khrushchev's shot up in favor of the motion. Khrushchev sat with bowed head. Cheers volleyed off the walls. Mikoyan and the others wrung the boss's hand. Khrushchev stepped to the rostrum to say with apparent emotion; "I shall do everything to justify your confidence and shall not spare strength, health or life to serve...
...living black and white." Bob Hope, back from his Russian junket, noted that there had been TV in all the rooms of his Moscow hotel-"only it watches you"-also called attention to the parades of expensive talent being given away free to television, proving that "the motion-picture industry isn't frightened. It's off its rocker...
...song-and-dance routine by Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas), it was better organized than in recent years, but still prone to flat jokes and awkward entrances and exits. All the same, with such old-guard purists as Clark Gable, John Wayne and Gary Grant helping the cause of motion pictures, Producer Jerry Wald figured that the free talent alone would have cost a paying sponsor...
...green, U.S. banks are glutted with savings, while their loan departments report a sharp fall-off in new business. Last week President Charles H. Brower of Manhattan's Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne stepped into the money jam, whistled up an adman's notion of creating motion. Advertising has the job of awakening desire, said hard-selling Charlie Brower to an American Bankers Association meeting in Chicago. His advice: let bankers quickly borrow some advertising techniques...