Word: mr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then had second thoughts and trimmed the spending to something fairly close to Administration requests. Just before Congress recessed last week, House Speaker Sam Rayburn let it be known that he was getting tired of the whole business. "If we cut a dollar below what [the Administration] wants," complained Mr. Sam, "it's like the heavens are going to fall. If we appropriate a dollar above their request, it's reckless and radical spending." The Democratic 86th, said Rayburn, is going to use its own judgment about spending "from here on out." And what that judgment...
...fact, as London's Economist soberly noted last week, "by the time he got it home, Mr. Macmillan's diplomatic luggage was pretty light." In the face of French, German and U.S. skepticism, Macmillan had dropped one pet concept after another. In the beginning the British press, taking its cue from the Macmillan-Khrushchev communiqué which mentioned a possible limitation of weapons "in an agreed area of Europe," had talked eagerly of steps toward "disengagement" of Western and Soviet forces in Central Europe. Macmillan's aides diluted this to a "thinning out" of the military...
...perked his jaw at a bold tangent, managed a practiced facsimile of the famed face-wide grin. On hand to size up the miming: South Carolina's retired Democratic Governor James F. Byrnes, 79, whose memory of spats with the boss he once served seemed mellowed: "I understood Mr. Roosevelt's feelings about politics. But it is inevitable when you have a political difference with someone that people attribute bitterness to it. Bitterness is a popular word in politics...
...Mr. Portman's behavior and frequent drunkenness," said Kim, "have made it impossible to stay." Everyone else's immediate denials only produced exchanges worthy of the acid O'Neill script itself...
...Mr. Hodgson? In London, before World War I, Ralph Hodgson was known to a small, bright circle as a Yorkshireman who loved good talk, bred fine dogs and wrote remarkable poetry. He made his living as an editor, newspaper draftsman, publisher of broadsides and chapbooks. But his heart was in his clear, spare, melodic verse about nature. He was 46 when he published the thin volume entitled Poems (1917), which fellow poets promptly ranked as one of the best works of the young century. Then Hodgson went off to teach English literature in Japan, and little more was heard...