Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Public Career. Solid (6 ft. 2 in., 185 Ibs.), curly-haired Clint Anderson took early to Democratic politics. He handled several Depression-era 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...
Pasternak, Billington feels, seems to have the solid support of all significant Russian authors. Very few of them signed a petition to expel Pasternak from the Writers Union and there has been much criticism levelled at the leader of the Soviet Youth Congress who had stated that "calling Pasternak a pig slanders...
...designed to provide the Six with 1,000,000 additional kilowatts of electricity by 1963. And in the spanking new Common Market headquarters on Brussels' aptly named Avenue de la Joyeuse Entree, Walter Hallstein, the German law professor who presides over the Common Market executive, could point to solid progress. Already the Common Market's European Investment Bank (capital: $1 billion) had made its first loans. Others of Hallstein's 1,000-odd employees were busily working out common tariffs and establishing procedures so that any citizen of the Six may seek...
When each D.J. showed up, RCA Victor handed him $1,000,000 in "play money," but the scrip called for solid value. The D.J.s were supposed to increase their holdings by gambling and by making frequent trips to the company's "Hospitality Suite" where they could obtain liquid refreshments plus 5,000 "dollars" for every visit. On Memorial Day, in exchange for the play money, RCA Victor auctioned off a stereo set, a color TV set, 500 real dollars worth of clothes, a trip for two to Europe, and a Studebaker Lark to the highest bidders-and the bidders...
...speech -a-day campaign with the same energy his father had shown as G.O.P. candidate for Governor of New York, he was forced out of T.R.'s footsteps decisively. Reason: his Democratic opponent, Al Smith, held the sidewalks of New York City solid to beat Ted's upstate lead by 108,500 votes...