Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate Armed Services Committee kept gallantly silent in public while trying to figure out in private what to do about a delicate problem of senatorial courtesy and chivalry. The problem: a campaign by Maine Republican Margaret Chase Smith, the Senate's only lady member, to block a fourth star for Air Force Lieut. General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell Jr., named last month to command the Pacific Air Forces. The Smith-O'Donnell feud started two years ago, when Senator Smith, annoyed at the Air Force's failure to promote her administrative assistant from colonel to brigadier...
...state and federal jobs, dealing mostly with unemployment and relief in New Mexico, in 1940 was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for the first of three terms. He made a House name for himself in hard-digging committee investigations, e.g., of Race-Baiter Gerald L. K. Smith, of food-rationing abuses during World War II. In 1945 President Harry Truman, a poker companion of Anderson's, named him Secretary of Agriculture, succeeding Henry A. Wallace. Serving at that post until 1948, Anderson was a staunch advocate of flexible farm supports, has stuck steadfastly to that position ever...
...John Diefenbaker, the appointment, made after the portfolio had lain open three months following the death of External Affairs Chief Sidney Smith, is an almost perfect choice. The position crowns the career of a loyal retainer with no designs on the party leadership. Diefenbaker will set overall foreign policy, while Green will handle day-to-day problems and parliamentary rough-and-tumble. In bypassing younger Tory potentials, Diefenbaker also avoided tabbing any heir apparent...
...When he does walk abroad, he likes to visit the scenes of old triumphs: "This is where I got Lepke." He is often alone-an isolation the big game he once stalked is pleased not to invade. He was seen alone recently at Rashomon, at the Louis Prima-Keely Smith opening at the Copacabana, and the other night he sat peaceably at Sardi's, a solitary diner, ignored by first-nighters streaming in to be met by Columnists Earl Wilson, Leonard Lyons and other Winchell competitors...
...Smith College Chien-Shiung Wu, physicist, co-disprover of the famed law of the conservation of parity Sc.D. Gwendolyn Grant Mellon, philanthropist, nurse, founder with her husband of Haiti's Albert Schweitzer Hospital L.H.D...