Word: publican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pegeen, the publican's daughter writes...
Eight to the Bar. In London. Publican Harry Sternshine won permission from the London County Council Public Control Committee to use an amplifier in his pub when he argued eloquently that louder music was required to attract people away from...
...That Stuck. The Democratic 84th, glowed House Democratic Leader John McCormack, was "one of the most constructive Congresses in history." Re publican Leader Joe Martin was less ex travagant, but conceded: "It has been a hard-working Congress. It has enacted many meritorious measures, but it has failed to come to grips with many others." Whenever the 84th got too blatantly political, it was slapped ba-k. The Presi dent made his veto stick on the Southern-Democratic-sponsored natural gas bill, al though he was "in accord with its basic objectives," because he got a strong whiff of "arrogant...
...retire into the corners and stay quiet. The French recall what happened after Hitler won the Saar from them in another referendum 20 years ago. "German nationalism is looking for its first success in the Saar," wrote Marcel Edmond Naegelen, onetime French governor of Algeria, in Le Républican Lorrain of Metz (the formerly German capital of Lorraine). "If Germany succeeds, she won't stop there, and she will want to succeed elsewhere in the West." At any rate, onlookers waited uncomfortably for a vote that is crucial to the future not only of the 900-square-mile...
...talk that McCarthy, if censured, might bolt the G.O.P. to head a third party in 1956. Joe's scramble for martyrdom and his appeal over the Senate to the people were cited as evidence of the walkout possibility. It was fairly obvious that Wallace Bennett was one Re publican who held scant fear about Joe's defection...