Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then the President strode out of the studio to his car, and was driven out past the Potomac to Washington's National Airport with Mrs. Eisenhower and their son, Major John, who was going to Geneva as his father's aide. From the roadside by the silver river, as the President's car sped by, there came a flurry of applause and cheers...
...used their official positions for private gain, while, before the House Banking Committee, an Administration bill to encourage businessmen to take Government jobs was having a rough time. The Administration wants to renew the Defense Production Act, which authorizes the employment of businessmen "without compensation," called WOCs in Potomac slang. (They are the latter-day successors of the famed dollar-a-year men, but receive not even the dollar since Congress in 1950 authorized the Government to accept the services of individuals without compensation...
...holiday weekend, Democratic Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson left the Mayflower hotel apartment of his friend and colleague, Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter George (who was recovering from bronchial trouble), and slipped behind the wheel of his blue Chrysler. He drove alone, through the stifling Washington heat, across the Potomac and 40 miles into Virginia to "Huntlands," the rolling estate of George Brown, Houston contractor and lavish contributor to Johnson's political campaigns. It was a trip from which Lyndon Johnson would return in a few hours-in an ambulance. He had suffered a coronary occlusion; doctors said...
...than Coach Harrison Sanford would have liked; it takes a long and tedious spring to work a crew into shape for the long and tedious sweep-swinging season. So the Big Red got off to a slow start. On the Severn in April, they lost to Navy; on the Potomac in May, and even on the home waters of Lake Cayuga four weeks later, Cornell's varsity eight came home second, behind the powerful Quakers from the University of Pennsylvania...
...down quick. He's got to vote. You better be awful sure he's not stacked up there." Minutes after Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson's telephone call one afternoon last week, Minnesota's airbound Senator Hubert Humphrey landed and was whisked across the Potomac in a Capitol police squad car, sirens ayowl. He arrived on the Senate floor, just in time to vote nay on the key Capehart amendment to the public-housing bill. That he did-although by then Johnson no longer needed the vote-was the result and symbol of Johnson...