Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee, vote OPA into oblivion (expiration date: June 30), and promise a cut of $4½ billion in the President's $37.5 billion budget. The Senators had also had to stew around while colleagues on both sides of the aisle belabored the Congressional Record with eulogies of William Randolph Hearst (see PRESS), editorials and letters from the folks at home. Gradually, such stewing had brought a general Senate tension...
Last week the Hearst empire was 60 years old. In the U.S. Senate, where its founder once hoped to sit, and in the House, where he once did, old acquaintances got off some carefully chosen but occasionally surprising words about William Randolph Hearst. Said Kansas' deaf old (81) Arthur Capper of his fellow publisher: "always. . . a fighting liberal." Said Nevada's George Malone, an old friend of the family: "still his own best editor." Edith Nourse Rogers earnestly told the House that "if ever the term 'public service' requires a synonym, I believe it will...
...Adams is an aggregation of two old and gaudy student apartment dwellings and one new structure that shelters the library and dining hall, all inter-connected by an elaborate tunnel system. The swimming pool, and adjacent sun deck, are hold-overs from the days when the West-merly and Randolph wings were part of the fabulous Gold Coast...
...cost of living has jumped about 25% at Oxford. The Oxonian who does nothing but study can barely get by on ?250 ($ 1,000 a year). To have an occasional tea party, an after-theater drink in the Randolph Hotel bar, or an infrequent meal at White's (the expensive new restaurant on The High), he would need at least ?350. The prewar prodigal who gave breakfast parties in his rooms, lunches with sherry, champagne, plovers' eggs and caviar, has gone with the food & drink...
...Denver, Columnist Randolph Churchill, who had attracted attention to himself by reporting a bathroom conversation with a plumber (TIME, Feb. 10), now bravely faced a platform duel with a carpenter. From New Jersey the carpenter wired a challenge to a "debate on the merits of the British Empire." Winston's son referred the matter to his lecture manager...