Word: pillion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...credit them with an Early American ancestry anyway. And, searching for meanings, he wildly overinterprets. Example: American women do not like to ride motorcycles because, perched on the back seat, they would have to assume a position secondary to the male. (The real explanation just might be that a pillion ride on a motorbike is hard on coiffure, makeup and rump...
Last week the House of Representatives defeated the bill for Hawaiian-Alaskan statehood after a loud-voiced, low-swinging debate. Loudest and lowest was New York's Republican Representative John Pillion, who discovered that anti-Communism can be used to justify almost any political action...
...spoke from the well of the House, Pillion stood beside a huge bulletin board thumbtacked with clippings about Hawaii's Communists. Pointing at the clippings with an accusing finger, Pillion cried: "The last session of the Hawaiian legislature was a Communist holiday...
...Pillion has never been to Hawaii-and does not intend to go. He recently explained to the House Rules Committee that he fears Hawaiian hospitality would make him change his mind about statehood. But he nonetheless considers himself something of an expert on the subject. Said he to a newsman last week...
...better able and more inclined to fight the influence of Communism as a state than as a territory." Nebraska's Republican A. L. Miller pointed out that a 1951 FBI report listed only 36 known Communists in Hawaii (as opposed to more than 20,000 in John Pillion's home state) and that seven of the Hawaii Reds have since been convicted...