Word: paule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Illinois' Paul H. Douglas, another outspoken advocate of big-spending welfare programs, rose to "agree with the Senator from Pennsylvania." Also chiming in: Wisconsin's William Proxmire, Oregon's Wayne Morse and Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey, who promised the farm belt an entirely "new" Democratic farm program, which is now discreetly buried in Humphrey's desk...
...attack. Left-leaning Americans for Democratic Action charged that the Democratic leadership in Congress "surrendered before a shot was fired." The A.D.A.-ish National Committee for An Effective Congress accused Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn of "liberal talking, conservative legislating." And in the latest Democratic Digest, National Chairman Paul Butler took the inside cover to urge the congressional Democrats not to let the veto threat scare them into "watering down our vital programs...
...Richest Man J. Paul Getty, London Dealer Geoffrey Agnew, Manhattan Dealer Julius Weitzner, and Leonard Koetser, a calm London dealer who had not even put in a bid until the price reached ?160,000. At the ?250,000 mark, only Agnew and Koetser were still slugging. Then, with Koet-ser's 15th and final nod, two minutes after the opening bid. Auctioneer Wilson knocked down the painting for ?275,000 ($770,000)-highest price ever recorded for a single painting at public auction...
Prize Catch. Like maharajahs eager for a tiger hunt, the big dealers and collectors came flocking to the humid, glass-roofed main salesroom of London's famed Sotheby's (pronounced Sutherbees) auction house. Prize catch of the lot was clearly Peter Paul Rubens' Adoration of the Magi. A 10 ft. 9¼ in. by 8 ft. panel painted by Rubens at the peak of his powers in 1634 for Louvain's Convent of the Dames Blanches, it is considered by dealers not only the best Rubens in Britain but the most important old master...
...July 20-21, Professor H. Anderson; Wed.-Fri., July 22-24, Rev. R. Jerrold Gibson, United Ministry to Students; Mon.-Tues., July 27-28, Dean David B. Tyack; Wed.-Thurs., July 29-30, Professor Calvin O. Schrag, Purdue University; Fri., July 31, Gareth B. Matthews; Mon. Aug. 3, Dr. Paul B. Yale; Tues., Aug 4, Professor C. Crane Brinton; Wed.-Fri., Aug. 5-7, The Rev. Nathaniel T. Whitcomb, United Ministry to Students; Mon.-Tues., Aug. 10-11, Wallace MacDonald; Wed.-Fri., Aug 12-14, Dean Samuel H. Miller; Mon.-Wed., Aug. 17-19, Rev. Walter F. Smith