Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With polite finality, the Republican National Committee last week dropped the name of California's Murray M. Chotiner from its roll of 1956 campaigners. A Beverly Hills attorney with a fine talent for astute political management, Chotiner has long been a power in West Coast politics, played key roles in the successful past campaigns of such prominent California Republicans as Vice President Richard Nixon, ex-Governor Earl Warren, Senate Minority Leader William Knowland. But a Senate subcommittee's investigation into the services he performed for an assortment of clients with U.S. Government problems brought him under heavy political...
...cynicism sweeping over Europe. After a stay in Britain, young Jacques arrived in the U.S. "in ridiculous short pants and ignorant of baseball." But he was ready to enter college at 15½. The college he chose was Columbia. "To anyone from Europe, Columbia was the American university. Nicholas Murray Butler had made that quite clear to Europe...
...union to negotiate separate agreements and pick them off one by one. By seeming to bow to McDonald's strategy, the steelmen were also boosting the union chief's stock with his men. The industry likes McDonald, a reasonable, conservative unionist, raised by the late Phil Murray from stenographer to become his successor as head of the 1,250,000-man union...
...possibility of top U.S. military officers visiting Russia. Following a phone call by the Soviet embassy last week inviting Air Force Chief of Staff Nathan Twining to send two or three high-level airmen to Moscow's Aviation Day, June 24, Assistant White House Press Secretary Murray Snyder told newsmen he "wouldn't be surprised" if all the Joint Chiefs accepted a Red invitation. Diplomatically, this was a gaffe, because an invitation had not even been issued. But was it a hint? Next day Senate Republican Leader William Knowland, who can take a hint as well...
...beat, "And a-one, and a-two and a-three . . ." He jigs in time to the music and, at least once each show, waltzes carefully around the stage with his singer, Alice Lon, looking like a man who has just successfully completed a course at Arthur Murray's. Welk twinkles a good deal and the big event of each show is when Welk harnesses himself to his $5,000 Pancordion and plays a number against the program's backdrop of champagne bubbles...