Word: paul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate passed an unemployment compensation bill so tightfisted that Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas dubbed it "the leaning tower of nothingness...
...first time in years there were signs of polite dissension inside U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey's and Governor Orville Freeman's tight-knit organization as the D.F.L. settled back to choose a candidate to run for Eisenhower Republican Ed Thye's Senate seat. The contenders: St. Paul's Eugene McCarthy, 42, onetime St. John's University economics and education professor and five-term Congressman with one of the most liberal voting records in the House; Red Wing's Mrs. Eugenie Anderson, 49, Harry Truman's Ambassador to Denmark, who had campaigned hard through...
...could play an instrument for pay in the U.S. without his consent. "What's the difference," he demanded, "between Heifetz and a fiddler in a tavern?" Once he decided to give a concert honoring Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly for political favors, and "suggested" to 23 bandleaders, including Paul Whiteman, Fred Waring. Tommy Dorsey and Kay Kyser, that they bring their orchestras to Chicago at their own expense. They all came, and with them the orchestras of three national radio networks...
...Mettenheim and back on the trip. Resuit : a classic example of the big-business press junket that plys the newsmen with free food, drink, travel and entertainment in exchange for his weary-eyed presence at trumped-up events ranging from the re-enactment of the ride of Paul Revere (American Airlines) to a "bake out" in Paris (Pillsbury Mills). "Beverage of Peace." In U.S. journal ism the junket has become an institution ranking somewhere between the Christ mas office party and the free pass to the ball game. In earlier times, newsmen were expected to pay for the hospitality with...
Last week demands for free copies were still flooding into Doubleday. Only four of the books had qualified as bestsellers by the appointed time: Jean Kerr's Please Don't Eat the Daisies. Edna Ferber's Ice Palace, Paul I. Wellman's Ride the Red Earth, and Robert Lewis Taylor's The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters. By also entering two less-likelies, Kenneth Roberts' The Battle of Cowpens and Saunders Redding's The Lonesome Road. Doubleday had thought to give its parlay some sporting zest. It succeeded too well. In flowed letters...