Word: oswald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charges of Communist associations and denounced the campaign against him as "vicious." He asked for and got permission to appear before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee to rebut the rumors. He will get plenty of support. All last week prominent New York Republicans were flocking to his defense. Said Oswald D. Heck, speaker of the state assembly and close political associate of Tom Dewey: "The statements circulated about [Javits] are ridiculous. I consider him to be one of the best public servants [and] the strongest candidate for the U.S. Senate...
...Oswald B. Lord, U.S. representative on the U.N. Commission on Human Rights LL.D...
...parlor magic tricks. He was soon well known around the county, and at 26 he went off to Albany as a Republican assemblyman. Together with a group of like-minded Young Turks, he helped overthrow the speaker, one Irving M. Ives (now U.S. Senator), and replace him with Oswald Heck, who, nearly 20 years later, is still speaker...
...loaded the taxpayers with an 11% increase in state income taxes to cover a budget based on his error. But there was remarkably little public reaction. One reason: a point about a state budget often gets lost in a maze of statistics, analyses and charts. Last week, however, Oswald D. (for David) Heck, speaker of the New York state assembly, found a way to make the case in a word...
...Oswald Spengler. that grand and gloomy chronicler of The Decline of the West, once remarked that Edouard Manet (1832-83) was the last gasp of great Western painting. What Spengler failed to see was that Manet was not an end but a beginning. With a single picture, displayed at the Paris Salon of 1865, Manet fueled an artistic revolution that has shaped the course of modern art, for better or for worse, for nearly a century. At the core of the whole hurly-burly that rages through the art world today is the artistic proposition raised by Manet...