Word: mr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joseph W. Martin Jr., ousted Republican Floor Leader (TIME, Jan. 19). The resolutions: authorization for Martin (as the only living former Speaker of the House) to keep the chauffeured Cadillac and most of the extra staff of the leadership office he lost to Indiana's Congressman Charles Halleck. Mr. Sam grandly ruled unanimous consent on his surprise package, despite a noisy objection from Tennessee's loose-tongued Ross ("Largemouth") Bass,*who said it was "an unusual precedent." ¶ Pennsylvania's six-term Republican Congressman Carroll Kearns, onetime Chicago Symphony soloist (baritone) fights a lonely battle...
Secretary Stimson gingerly put his left hand in the jar, took the first capsule he touched, handed it to Mr. Roosevelt. The President, old stager that he was, glanced at the newsreel and radio men, got their nod before he intoned: "The first number is one-five-eight." Registration serial number 158, held by some 6175 registrants throughout the U.S., thus became Draft Order...
...Mr. Secretary, is it our position that free elections are the only method of reuniting Germany? In other words, do we say, "no free elections, no reunification...
...Press International ignored it in its first story; the Associated Press put it in paragraph three, later moved it down to the sixth paragraph. But soon nearly everybody was following the imaginative lead adopted by the Times, the New York Herald Tribune, and several other papers. Said Walter Lippmann: "Mr. Dulles opened the door to negotiations on the future of Germany." Growled the New York Daily News: "It seems to us that Mr. Dulles has dropped a king-size brick...
Tunnels & Tools. Now McDonnell is training its sights on space. "Mr. Mac," as President McDonnell likes to be called, is certain that space flight is ''one of the most rapidly evolving fields of human creativity in the history of the world," and he is determined to win a place on the planets for his company. A tireless worker (eleven hours a day, six days a week) and an omnivorous reader, he devours everything on space he can find, scans every proposal in such microscopic detail that section chiefs must bring along their junior engineers to answer his pinpoint...