Word: paul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...today the change has become joltingly clear to the vintage liberals because of two events: 1) the nation's rapid surge from recession to boom without the big spending promised by the liberals in November, and 2) the failure of the attempts of Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler and the old-line liberals to force the congressional Democrats into a free-spending collision with Ike. Such a collision course, the liberals in Congress agree, would be foolish and unrealistic. Says one Senate liberal: "The Democratic National Committee is like a government in exile. They keep operating the same...
Quite a few Democrats, it turned out, were just as unhappy about Paul Butler. Before the next morning's explosive headlines had grown cool, the Capitol dome began to sound like a hive of angry bees. "Mr. Butler should resign," cried South Carolina's William Jennings Bryan Dorn. "He evidently thinks all of the thinking and planning of the Democratic Party should be done by himself and his liberal gang." Mister Sam was a man of few words: "We'll just let Mr. Butler stew...
...scarred little picture has rested unidentified for more than a century in the collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. It is the work of a minor Swiss artist named Pierre Eugène du Simitière, who settled in Philadelphia and became Jefferson's friend. Paul Sifton, an American scholar and Du Simitière expert, last week showed evidence that the picture's subject is really Jefferson, done from life at 33 at the time of the Declaration of Independence...
Married. Robin Douglas-Home, 27, London jazz piano player who turned adman to win the hand of Sweden's willowy Princess Margaretha but reverted to the piano after the Swedish royal family stalled and his father roared that the Swedes were belittling the British Empire; and Sandra Paul, 18, homegrown, high-paid model; in London...
...LLEWELLYN JONES, by Paul Hyde Banner (372 pp.; Scribner; $4.50), brings back the amateurish but pleasantly diverting ex-diplomat who specializes in novels (S.P.Q.R., Excelsior!) about the kind of foreign affairs that set ambassadorial medals ajingle. The latest hero to pop out of Author Bonner's undiplomatic pouch is Townsend Britton, who is on the mossy side of 50; he is tall, athletic and handsome, but his soul bears the thumbprint of his ruthless wife Edith. She forces him to resign as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium because she wants to be a Washington hostess. Eventually, Britton decides that...