Word: prescott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor Stoughton seemed to resent this affront. Although his spirit remained quite for some years, it had an insidious effect on the occupants of the new hall. The two historians Francis Parkman and William Hickling Prescott both later went blind, and Richard Henry Dana had to go off to sea to recover his eyesight. Even the burbling Oliver Wendell Holmes was daunted during his year of residence, managing to mutter only, "I am as cross as a wild-cat sometimes." Stoughton remained gloomy for years, inwardly boiling at the more light-hearted Hollis, where the Hasty Pudding Club...
After Xerxes: Alex. There had been talk among President Eisenhower's most faithful Senate followers about putting up a slate to contest the control of the G.O.P. old-liners. In this scheme, Connecticut's Senator Prescott Bush would have been drafted to run for minority leader against Incumbent Leader William Knowland. New Jersey's Senator H. Alexander Smith wrote letters to his party colleagues suggesting that a mighty good choice for Republican policy chairman would be Senator H. Alexander Smith...
...eloquent argument for censure came from Connecticut's Republican Senator Prescott Bush. McCarthy, said Bush, has "caused dangerous divisions among the American people because of his attitude and the attitude he has encouraged among his followers: that there can be no honest differences of opinion with him. Either you must follow Senator McCarthy blindly, not daring to express any doubts or disagreements about any of his actions, or, in his eyes, you must be a Communist, a Communist sympathizer, or a fool who has been duped by the Communist line." Bush defended Censure Committee Chairman Arthur Watkins from...
...level of scrappy regional history. When New Mexican Novelist Paul Horgan began to do his book on the Rio Grande, it was meant to be one of the series. But in the end, the publishers decided not to include his book, for it towers above the others as a Prescott towers above cracker-barrel chroniclers. Great River is not only a fine job of historical research. It fuses the imagination of a good novelist (The Fault of Angels) with a remarkable sense of a region's character...
...unusually good one. The son of Jewish immigrant parents, Ribicoff, after working his way through college and law school, served four years in Congress and compiled a voting record of independent liberalism. In 1952 he ran for the Senate but lost to Eisenhower's coattails and Senator Prescott Bush. His showing was so impressive, however, that John M. Bailey, the state Democratic boss, handpicked him to oppose Lodge in this race...