Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flight refueling system and carrier landings of the F2H-3 Banshee. With 3,600 flight hours (1,700 in jets), he was tapped as a fast-rising comer, sent to the Naval War College ('58), then got the key job of aircraft readiness officer for the Atlantic Fleet. Says his wife Louise: "He is always reading technical manuals and the big policy-type journals, the kind the admirals and generals say should be read. He is one of those lucky men-his work is his hobby...
Stewart: Insofar as the decision of cases-and these almost invariably are difficult cases-has an impact upon policy I should say that it could be judged to be a policy-making body...
...ventriloquist act." Michigan's unemployment-harassed Pat McNamara, whose Senate achievements have hardly been worth a stick of type, squawked at Johnson for blocking liberal Democratic attempts to broaden unemployment compensation. Pennsylvania's Joe Clark dashed off his second "Dear Lyndon" letter proposing that liberals have more say in policymaking. And even back in Texas, the liberal Young Democrats baited Johnson (209-73) for not being liberal enough, sent their resolution around the U.S. for Democrats to read...
...Stewart paused to choose words. "If I give a simple yes or no answer it would not only disqualify my participation in pending cases and heaven only knows how many future cases, but it seems to me it would involve a serious problem of simple judicial ethics . . . Let me say this so there will be no misunderstanding. I would not like you to vote for me because I am for overturning that decision, because I am not. I have no prejudgment against that decision...
...sees as his most potent rival for the nomination is Missouri's low-flying Stuart Symington (see below), who will probably fight shy of primaries and hope for a convention compromise. To whip a weakening Humphrey, say Kennedy strategists, would only help Symington by removing Humphrey as a potential smoke-filled-room rival...