Word: sam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best-known work of all was a World War I recruiting poster-perhaps the only one in history that actually drove large numbers of young men into wartime recruiting offices. Using his own lean, darkly handsome face as a model, he depicted a stern, black-browed Uncle Sam pointing an inescapable, slacker-accusing finger, demanding: I WANT YOU. The Government printed 4.000.-000 copies, shipped them to every city, town and hamlet in the nation...
During the peaceable 19203. reproductions of James Montgomery Flagg paintings and drawings were as ubiquitous as his wartime Uncle Sam. His full-lipped Flagg Girls looked out from the pages of every big-circulation magazine. He earned $75.000 a year from Flagg Girls and celebrity portraits, spent it freely in hard-drinking high life. Besides being the country's most famous illustrator and most conspicuous bohemian. he was its gruffest voicer of strong opinions. "I know why there are so many pretty gals in New York," he once said, "all the ugly ones are in college." He dismissed Picasso...
...negotiate with the U.S. until a new President is elected, Nikita Khrushchev waded right into U.S. politics. His humiliation of President Eisenhower was something that no American could tolerate, and Washington's first instinctive, shocked reaction was to unite behind the President. Like good coxswains, House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson did what they could to get the Democrats to pull together with the Administration. Mister Sam clamped an iron rule of silence on one-minute opening speeches, traditional sounding board in the House, and in the Senate Johnson led the rally...
...your country that he reconsider his suggestion for a postponement of the summit conference until after the national elections in this country." All this was both good patriotism and good politics. But before the week was out, even before the President returned to Washington (to be greeted by Mister Sam and a phalanx of Democratic loyalists among the 2,000 airport welcomers), politics became its more natural self...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 8:30-10 p.m.). Rod Serling's In the Presence of Mine Enemies takes place in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. With Charles Laughton, Arthur Kennedy and Sam Jaffe...