Word: robert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ROBERT H. PORTER...
...Passed an anti-B-girl measure barring employment of females for "soliciting, enticing, or encouraging the purchase of alcoholic beverages." Lone "nay" voter: the house's oldest member, Fairbanks' Robert E. Sheldon, 76. Orated he: "Fourscore and seven years ago, when Alaska and I were young, Alaska was filled with dance-hall girls who operated on a commission basis, and some of them developed into our leading matrons...
...Weighed Representative Robert Blodgett's proposed ten-year ban on new government buildings in Juneau, the state capital. "I wouldn't want them to get carried away with illusions of grandeur," Blodgett explained. But Blodgett himself got carried away in speaking for his bill to set aside 5,000,000 acres of land to provide income for the University of Alaska. "Why, some day," he exclaimed, "we could have the greatest university in the country...
...Wisconsin primary. Then, before anyone knew what he was up to, Chairman Lucey mailed letters of invitation and copies of the statement to seven top Democratic hopefuls: Humphrey, Kennedy, Michigan's Soapy Williams, Missouri's Stuart Symington, Tennessee's Estes Kefauver, New Jersey's Robert Meyner, Adlai Stevenson-but not Lyndon Johnson...
...better than 20th in big international meets, but last week a young 18-year-old from Duluth, Minn, placed tenth against the world's best at the Holmenkollen in Oslo, Norway. He would have done still better had he not faltered on one landing. As it was, Eugene Robert Kotlarek actually outjumped the winner, and established himself in a sport traditionally dominated by Europeans...