Word: slate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hans F. Loeser, president of the CCA, in announcing the endorsements, characterized the organization's slate as "one of the strongest we have ever been able to present...
Back in Baton Rouge from a nightclubbing 17-day vacation in Texas, Mexico and Arkansas, Louisiana's Governor Earl Long abruptly called his state legislature together in special session to consider a slate of 21 bills he wanted passed. The "urgent" agenda ran from vengeful bills against Long's political enemies, through pork-barrelling campaign provender, to a whimsical item that would have barred airlines from grounding stewardesses when they got married. The legislature at Baton Rouge last week just as abruptly answered the Governor's call: it adjourned 20 minutes after it had convened-the shortest...
...landed in New York, Long Island Congressman Stuyvesant Wainwright, whose brother works for Rockefeller, announced from Washington a "draft Rockefeller" movement ready to set up a Midwestern headquarters. He was shortly seconded by Wisconsin's Congressman Alvin O'Konski, who promised that Rockefeller would have a full slate of delegates in the April Wisconsin primaries. By week's end Rocky was no longer a possible contender but a candidate in the ring, and the only question left for November was whether he would campaign openly or drop out of the race...
...list is rich with names-Olivier, Guinness, Bergman, Booth, Robards, Merman, Hope, Berle. The live drama, the comedies, the variety shows they will star in will be balanced by an ambitious slate including opera, public affairs, sports, education and adventure. There will be a record 250 hours of colorcasts...
...choosing their first two U.S. Senators and single Congressman, Hawaiians last week elected a slate as ethnically varied (one Chinese-American, one Japanese-American, one mainland-born Caucasian) and politically divided (two Democrats, one Republican) as the new state itself...