Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years I had been looking in vain for a worthy Democrat. Now my quest is ended. The silver-tongued Governor Frank Clement of Tennessee, in his keynote speech opening the Democratic Convention, came up with the greatest political slogan ever conceived by the mind of man, to wit: "The Democratic Party-dedicated to the greater glory...
Personality & Politics: Silver-haired, trim and ruddy, Finnegan is a light eater, disdains cigars, watches his blood pressure like a campaign manager watching a wavering delegate. No jolly backslapper or joke-smith, he has only an ordinary memory for names and faces, seldom relaxes ("The only time I ever knew him to relax," says Campaign Executive Director Hy Raskin, "was when he took off a weekend in Atlantic City. And then all he did was to sit on someone's front porch and talk politics"). He has never married. He blends a good sense of practical politics with...
Eleven years ago Walter Paul Paepcke, millionaire president of Container Corp. of America, motored into the broad valley of Roaring Fork River in Colorado and determined to resurrect the sagging silver-mining town of Aspen. Paepcke built Aspen into a center of muscle and mind, with one of the world's longest ski lifts (14,000 ft.) and summer conferences featuring greats of philosophy, education and musiC−Albert Schweitzer, Reinhold Niebuhr, Jacques Barzun, Mortimer Adler, Igor Stravinsky, et al. This week, with the tax evaluation of Aspen increased sixteenfold, Paepcke, 60, prepared to open a new nonprofit enterprise...
...page boy at the Kansas City convention of 1900, 16-year-old Harry joined full-throat in the bedlam when William Jennings Bryan ("He was one of my heroes") stampeded his second convention with his silver-tongued, silver-oriented (16 oz. of silver to 1 oz. of gold) oratory. In 1924, then a member of the Jackson County Court under the auspices of hard-knuckled Democrat Boss Tom Pendergast, Politician Truman sat with ears growing numb under his crystal-set earphones. He listened to almost every word of the 14-day, 103 -ballot convention in Madison Square Garden (Alabama...
...demonstrate his powers, he deliberately invited technical difficulties, multiplying close harmonies of the flesh, pleated linen and polished silver, and tilting the teapot in the hand...