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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fellow mavericks that more people voted for a victorious Republican President in 1956 than ever before. Apart from proving that presidential support is anything but a handicap, Ike went on to spread the handwriting on the wall in big enough letters for even the most shortsighted GOPoliticians to read. Said he: "We must help to build up countries ... if the tide of Communism is to be checked. We must ... be watchful of the economy. Those are the big things I believe in and ... I would refuse to support any man who didn't believe in them...
...introduced as an "All-American Russian." He was short, of average build, blue-eyed, grey-haired, wearing a neat and conservative suit; his air of aplomb as he looked around the crowded room was that of a subdued advertising executive. He spoke good English, and as he began to read the text of a formal speech he ad-libbed that he liked to ski, swim, play tennis; he broadened that into "good sportsmanship" and that into "good neighbors" and that into "peaceful coexistence...
...force, Hearst's Herald & Express whooped: ROSY L.A. ECONOMY SEEN. In Detroit, some of the big auto plant shutdowns have landed in the back pages. In New England, most publishers admit privately that they are worried about business conditions, but, says one news executive, "you'll never read a line of what they're saying in their own papers...
...Retired American League Umpire Emmet ("Red") Ormsby, 62, was understandably surprised to read in James T. (Studs Lonigan) Farrel's book, My Baseball Diary, that "Red Ormsby was found broke and dead in a cheap hotel." Not only is Red's health good, but he has been thriving for years. He is both a lecturer and an employee of Chicago's Liquor License Appeal Commission. (Typical lecture topic: "Kill the Umpire.") By killing the umpire prematurely, he charged, Farrell would cost him countless lecture bookings. Ormsby slapped him with a $250,000 suit for damages...
...hearing, American Airlines President C. R. Smith snapped at a CAB counsel: "I don't know what you're talking about, and neither do you." When the record has accumulated, often to a height of five or six feet, the commissioners do not have time to read all or even most of it. Lawyers often take advantage of the commissioners' presence to draw out the hearings even further by making grandstand plays. Says one lawyer: "We have to impress them with the shock treatment. Our thoughtful arguments are not going to get detailed consideration anyway...