Word: pell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election night victory party last week in Providence's Sheraton-Biltmore Hotel, the crowd's attention turned suddenly from merrymaking to the grand entrance of a large, elder-statesman kind of gentleman. He was Herbert Claiborne Pell, former Ambassador to Portugal and Hungary, who had just arrived from London with his wife to see their son, Claiborne. After upsetting two veterans in the Rhode Island Democratic primary, Claiborne Pell was celebrating a 2-to-1 landslide win over his Republican opponent for the U.S. Senate...
Towering a half-foot above his tall son, Herbert Pell was rushed by reporters and commentators before he was able to greet the Senator-elect. "I have run for public office and have handled campaigns," said the former political manager for Al Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt, "but no campaign in which I was interested has given me anything like the pleasure and happiness I have now." A reporter wanted to know whether the Ambassador helped out his son's campaign. "I certainly did," Pell snapped back. His newly-elected son and the party campaign managers, who were mindful that...
...major problem facing the President-elect, Pell stated, is the eventual admission of Red China to the United Nations or the fall...
...Pell said that he hoped to see but did not necessarily expect the Kennedy Administration to cut armaments expenditures in favoring of pressing domestic needs, especially railroads, education, and housing...
...guest of Arthur D. Holcombe '66, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Emeritus, Pell spoke informally last night with Holcombe's Dunster House seminar on the American Executive. The Ambassador returned from Europe last Tuesday just in time to rush to the victory party in Providences of his son, who had been elected U.S. Senator from...