Word: rhode
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Gilbert Stuart was a Tory who quit his Rhode Island home to avoid the alarums and excursions of the American Revolution, learned the art of portraiture in London, and returned to paint the first five Presidents of the Republic. He did three original studies of George Washington, from which he made more than 100 copies. The second and least idealized version (see, cut) is the public's favorite painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia...
...outdraws Ike by nearly 3 to 1, yet everybody, including Taftmen, knows that Taft has practically no chance to carry any of these states in November. By contrast, Ike's strength in Democratic states comes largely from those with normal Democratic majorities of less than 60%, e.g., Missouri, Rhode Island. Ike has a chance to carry these in November. In general, the more thoroughly Democratic a state is, e.g., South Carolina, the more its Republicans are likely to be pro-Taft...
...heavy, iron-grilled door of Eisenhower's residence on Morningside Heights, near Columbia University. On the first day it was Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Delaware. Next day it was Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina; on the third day New York and Maryland; on the fourth New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont, Maine, Virginia, South Carolina. The visits were pretty much alike. First the delegates got a little opening talk from Ike. His words to the Jersey delegates were typical: "I have no panaceas. Certainly I'm no miracle man. I'll make no promises over and above...
Miller practiced medicine in the Boston area, ever since he graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 1910. He was a noted author on surgery and medicine and served as a consultant surgeon for the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Boston Lying-In Hospital, and the Pawtucket. Rhode Island hospital...
...Equality. New York's Herbert Lehman, Rhode Island's John Pastore, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, and Illinois' Paul Douglas led a strong protest against holding to the old rules. The McCarran bill, they agreed, is "harsh . . . discriminatory . . . undemocratic." Lehman called for "a new approach to the whole subject of immigration . . . to demonstrate to the world that we are sincere in advocating principles based on equality of men of all races and nations." Pastore passionately urged: "We should take the roster of the American Army in World War II . . . and, upon the basis of those racial strains...