Word: picnicing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dwight Eisenhower's picnic for the Pennsylvania Republican delegation two weeks ago, Donald Fine, nine-year-old son of Governor John Sydney Fine, was wearing an Ike button. A newsman asked young Fine whether it meant he liked Ike. Replied Donald, clearly a chip off the old block: "I think Eisenhower is a nice man. I think Taft...
...Picnic in Pennsylvania. On his plane heading for his meeting with the Pennsylvania delegation, Ike breakfasted off a tray balanced on a pillow on his lap, then went forward and sat in the pilot's seat. At Harrisburg, Governor John Fine welcomed him. At his farm three miles from Gettysburg, Ike had a happy reunion with his old friend Arthur Nevins, a retired brigadier general who runs the place (189 acres, twelve Holsteins, ten Guernseys, 500 chickens) while Ike is away. From New York Ike had phoned: "I'm coming down for a picnic. Don't sell...
...picnic came 58 members of the important 70-man Pennsylvania delegation, including determined Fence-Sitter Fine, plus 60 alternates and 160 newsmen. Ike spoke to them from the back porch. It was his duty, he said, to tell delegates how he would tackle Government problems; it was their duty to decide whether they liked what he said. "I will abide by their decision cheerfully...
...Fine, obviously pleased with all this. "I never discuss anything else but." Had he made any commitments? None. But he had agreed to Ike's suggestion that Pennsylvania's 70 delegates and 70 alternates get together this week at the Eisenhower farm outside Gettysburg, Pa. for a picnic. Who will give the party? "Eisenhower," said Fine firmly. But there wouldn't be any announcement then on how the Pennsylvania delegation stands. The delegates were going to meet with Senator Taft later. Fine didn't know just when he would commit himself, but the candidates would...
...Orleans' sprawling City Park was once a sugar plantation. Now it combines the languorous beauty of the Cajun country with a football stadium, two 18-hole golf courses, an amusement area, picnic grounds, a swimming pool, baseball diamonds, dozens of tennis courts and an art museum...