Word: poste
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...served his apprenticeship on the mediocre Labor and Government Operations Committees, was due under Lyndon Johnson's mandate for a better job. ··· While Democrats last week were at least showing some spirit over committee assignments, Senate Republicans hewed grimly to strict seniority in passing out posts. To the lowly District of Columbia Committee went two capable newcomers, Kentucky's Thruston Morton (who also got Post Office) and New York's Jack Javits (who also got Rules). Faring only slightly better, Kentucky's other Republican, former Ambassador to India John Sherman Cooper, was awarded...
Certain advantages are obvious. With the examination never more than four weeks away, procrastination would be far less likely. With only one impending examination, the student would be far less likely to work himself into the usual reading period dilemma of post-poning all four courses until there is time enough to do justice to only one. With the pressure of other courses removed he would be able to explore interests in the subject as they developed out of the required reading, without feeling that such unassigned work was consuming time which, for purposes of academic recognition, would be better...
Succeeding Earl Warren as California's Republican national committeeman (Warren resigned to become state attorney general), Knowland used the post to travel the length and breadth of the state, getting to know people and letting them know him. He made news on being elected chairman of the Republican National Committee's executive committee, posed for pictures with every leading G.O.P. candidate who came through town, including Republican Leaders Tom Dewey and Wendell Willkie. He was, in fact, carefully preparing for the day when Hiram Johnson's Senate place would become vacant...
...Whirlwind. In his two-bedroom, $175-a-month Berkshire Hotel apartment, Knowland is up six mornings a week by 7 o'clock, reads the Washington Post and Times Herald and the New York Times in his official limousine (a perquisite of his position as minority leader) on his way to the Capitol. The Senate restaurant normally opens at 8:15, but one waiter comes regularly at 8 to serve Knowland his orange juice, eggs, toast and coffee. It is always a working breakfast, once a week with White House Legislative Aide Jerry Persons, other mornings with Cabinet officers...
...Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). To Die Alone, deepseated" prejudice in the post-Civil War West, with Burl Ives...