Word: sons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visited was strictly a showcase for his benefit. Not so, said Nixon. Besides, he added, did not the Russians bring their prettiest girls to model at the New York exhibit? Kozlov admitted that Nixon had a point. Speaking of markets, the Vice President mentioned that he himself was the son of a California grocer and was reared in a modest economic background. In turn, Kozlov confided a rare item of autobiography: "I was one of nine children. Five of them died in childhood because of a lack of enough to eat. Two were killed in the war. There is only...
Latest to rise in attack on the leadership of Texan Lyndon Johnson was Louisiana's Russell Long, son of Huey and nephew of Earl. Long had helped Senate liberals sweat through the Senate a proposed tax-cut program (repeal of the 4% forgiveness on dividends, repeal of Korean war excise taxes on travel, telephones, etc.), calculated to impress the voters and embarrass the Administration. Then, before Long's very eyes, the long arms of Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn reached into the meeting of Senate-House conferees to compromise away all that had been fought...
...showdown and would enter the state's presidential primary next May whether Di Salle liked it or not. Explaining that he hoped to avoid a party-splitting primary fight, Di Salle said that he himself was strongly tempted to lead a unified delegation-as its favorite son. What he left unsaid, but what Kennedy might have guessed, was that the peppery Governor-who led the big (58 convention votes) delegation into Estes Kefauver's column against Kennedy in the 1956 vice presidential balloting-is only lukewarm about Jack Kennedy...
...reaches the age of 55 without saving a penny. There is something wrong with the system when a man does everything he should do and still ends up in that spot." Ekblom has not ended up in that spot because Hupp is only one of his interests. The son of an immigrant cabinetmaker, Ekblom went to work after grammar school, earned enough money to set up an auto repair shop at 16, became a self-taught expert in economics, accounting, corporate law and management. He turned his hand to selling cars and several other businesses, became a corporate doctor...
...confusion like derailed freight cars. They involve the sergeant's stepfather, a Senator who trades on his war wound and resembles McCarthy as played by Lou Costello, and his mother, a megalomaniac who maneuvers the Senator like a windup toy and makes an Oedipal wreck of her son...