Word: sendoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democrats not inclined to support Stevenson would resent his using the dinner for his personal sendoff. So he decided to announce just before the Democrats began to gather in Chicago...
Just before Darby left Washington, Ike's White House assistants gave him a rousing sendoff. During the party, Darby received a dummy copy of TIME with a picture of himself on the cover. Said the cover caption: "For Ike relief, for Chicago chaos." A few minutes later, a White House aide handed the correspondent a small envelope. It contained a warm personal farewell from Ike and Mamie. In a tongue-in-cheek postscript, the President stoutly denied that on Darby's departure there would be "For Ike relief, for Chicago chaos...
...polio season made history by its unique sendoff: the statisticians had scarcely begun feeding figures into their machines for the new disease year, beginning in April, when the Cutter vaccine incident broke, and it became clear that some of the Salk vaccine contained live virus. Almost at once the nation's total of polio cases hit an alltime high for the date (147 in the last week of April), and kept on doing so for six straight weeks. The cases among the children inoculated with Salk vaccine (mostly by Cutter) and among their contacts (a total of 422) were...
...ceremonial sendoff marked the official opening of Canada's newest major mining venture, Bethlehem Steel's open-pit operation at Marmora, Ont., which will provide jobs for some 270 residents of the industry-poor region. Trade and Commerce Minister C. D. Howe, in a speech at the ceremony, spotlighted another point of significance for Canada's fast-growing iron mining industry: "With the opening of Steep Rock in northwestern Ontario, the Quebec-Labrador mines, and this mine...
Love from Harry. There was no genuine business before the national commit tee. The occasion was just an excuse to give the fall campaign a rousing sendoff, to hold informal clinics on the health of the party, and to coach freshmen candidates in the fine art of campaigning. Harry Truman, the party's oracle of optimism, was unable to attend the meeting (his doctor has ordered him not to do any politicking this fall). But Harry Truman thumped his first tom-tom, with a nostalgic give-em-hell letter to Democratic Chairman Steve Mitchell...