Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retired, at 75, from his $17,500-a-year lifetime seat on that bench. Last week President Eisenhower was getting ready to fill the job-the first important judicial appointment of his Administration. The choice lay between a candidate with top-drawer political credentials and one carrying the blue-ribbon endorsement of leaders of the second circuit's bench...
...nondiscrimination clause in Government contracts was almost a dead letter, largely because federal agencies made little attempt to enforce it. What Ike wanted from his committee was action. To emphasize that fact, he appointed Vice President Richard Nixon to head the new body and gave him a blue-ribbon group with which to work. Among the members: J. Ernest Wilkins, Chicago Negro attorney, who is to be vice chairman; C.I.O. President Walter Reuther; A.F.L. President George Meany; Fred Lazarus, president of Federated Department Stores, Inc.; and Mrs. Helen Rogers Reid, board chairman of the New York Herald Tribune...
...qualifications. Speaker of the House Joe Martin: "Public Enemy No. 1, as far as Cupid is concerned . . . This engaging male is 68, dimpled, dark-haired and modest . . . has a shy sweetness ..." House Minority Leader Sam Rayburn (71): "Baldheaded, short and a little pudgy, but he's a blue-ribbon darling in anybody's date book . . . Footloose and fancy-free." Georgia Senator Dick Russell (55): "At the very mention of his name, Washington widows heave and sigh . . . The darling of the Southland, has just about everything. He's gallant, handsome, debonair, wise and charming." Rhode Island Senator Theodore...
...Ireland of Cold Spring, N.Y. is a man of great distinction: he holds more Purple Heart citations than any other marine on record. Last week, after the Marine Corps had finally got around to giving his combat wounds their due, Ireland was the owner of a white-striped purple ribbon with eight gold stars...
...dismal, fitful rain stopped at last, or seemed to, shortly before the Queen was to appear. A hoarse command went up, and a bright red ribbon seemed suddenly to unroll along both edges of the Mall-the guardsmen, still beneath their big black bearskins, had doffed their raincapes by the numbers. The thousands cheered. A workman somehow got onto the Mall on a bicycle, pedaled incongruously past, tipping his hat from side to side in Chaplinesque solemnity while the crowd cheered...