Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Political geographers, noting that the road to the White House is impassable from the South but wide open from the West, suspect that Johnson might have more than one reason for his westward shift in thinking. Cracked the New York Daily News: "We'd say it's at...
¶ Milton J. Hammergren, retired general sales manager of the Wurlitzer Co., testified that he had used underworld contacts in such cities as New York and Chicago to sell Wurlitzer's jukeboxes, had become accustomed to reports of gang beatings and killings as "liabilities of the business." Wurlitzer officials...
¶ Georgia's rural woolhats, led by U.S. Senator Richard Brevard Russell of Winder (pop. 4,604), marched on Atlanta (pop. 510,000) to try to scare city moderates out of complying with a certain-to-come federal integration order. "I want to invite the people of Atlanta back...
On Capitol Hill there were signs of an early spring thaw. Mellowed by his long bout with cancer (TIME, Feb. 16), Oregon's Democratic Senator Richard Neuberger went back to work, was greeted on the Senate floor by a crowd of well-wishers, headed by none other than his...
The U.S. Air Force popped a promotion list into the senatorial hopper, then waited for the what-for. On the roster: drawling Cinemactor and Reserve Colonel James (Strategic Air Command) Stewart, once refused promotion to brigadier general two years ago (TIME, Sept. 2, 1957) after Maine's Senator Margaret...