Word: silver
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...less aggressive type than Longstreth, this might be considered a dubious honor. Dilworth is a vote-getter. An honored Marine veteran of both world wars (an arm wound in the Soissons drive of 1918, a Silver Star from Guadalcanal), Dick Dilworth is a successful Philadelphia lawyer, specializing in libel suits. He was elected city treasurer in 1949 and was a key man on the Democratic team that ousted the Republican machine from the city hall after 67 unbroken years of sodden rule. In 1951 he was elected district attorney...
...flittered through Washington like bats at twilight. At the governors' conference, early this month, Goodie had heard them-whispered in Washington corridors, murmured over the transoms of closed doors-and, while he doubted the rumors, he was vastly disturbed. But Goodie Knight, never glum for long, found a silver lining. Last week he made a big decision: if Ike declines the Republican nomination, then Goodie Knight will seek it for himself. "I would certainly like to be President," he told a TIME reporter. "Any politician who is forthright, honest and candid must confess that it is the greatest honor...
...Silver Fount. He has been fascinated by politics as long as he can remember. At the age of ten, he was attending political speeches. Once, he cut school and bribed a janitor with $2.50 to let him into an all-female meeting in Pasadena, where William Jennings Bryan was pouring out his oratorical silver. Before he cast his first vote. Goodie had heard Bryan a dozen times-as well as Woodrow Wilson, Hiram Johnson, William Howard Taft, Champ Clark and Theodore Roosevelt. Much of Goodie's political technique derives from his hooky-playing days with the great spellbinders. Says...
...statehood bill, said he, guarantees "Harry Bridges fwo seats in the Senate and two in the House . . . Statehood at this time would only serve to deliver the Hawaiian state government to the Communist Party on a silver platter...
...affirmative team of Ralp I. Petersberger '55, Robert M. O'Neil '56, and Joseph E. Frank '56 will debate at Princeton. Gold medals will go to each of the debaters, continuing the tradition revived last year. The alternates, E. Leo Slaggie '56 and Evan R. Berlack '56 receive silver awards...