Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ "Under our doctrine of 'objectivity.' what a man says is news whether or not it happens to be true. When Senator McCarthy made wild charges, we blew them up-even after we knew them to be untrue."
Johnson's first stop was Morganfield, Ky., for a luncheon huddle with Governor Bert Combs and ex-U.S. Senator Earle Clements. A probable conversational topic: Clements' appointment as Kentucky's commissioner of highways-a strategic spot where Kingmaker Clements can control the Kentucky delegation to next...
Moving through Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and Arizona, Johnson showed an uncanny understanding of his audiences. At a Drake University student Democratic club rally, he sensed the let-out partisanship of his listeners, proceeded to wow them with a wry reference to the Nixon-Rockefeller contest: "The Republicans apparently believe that...
Truman's first job was to introduce the seven Democratic presidential possibles, and he plainly wore his heart on his sleeve. He breezed lightly over California's Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown ("a man to be reckoned with''), New Jersey's Governor Bob Meyner ("in the...
In choosing Schering as his initial target, Senator Kefauver picked a good example of the high-profit potential of the drug industry. Set up in Bloomfield, N.J., in 1935 by Germans to make sex hormones, Schering had only $3,000,000 in annual sales when the Government confiscated the company...