Word: sparkman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republicans) to 1 (New Hampshire Republican Norris Cotton). Actually, the Administration's public-works speedup was under way without the help of the Johnson resolution. ¶ The Senate passed a $1.8 billion housing bill, 86 to 0, with 44 Republicans supporting the measure authored by Alabama Democrat John Sparkman. At one point Democratic politics came through loud and clear, when the Democrats tried to knock out a provision permitting an increase of interest rates on G.I. loans from 4½% to 4¾%-an increase that will encourage private lenders to handle the now-shunned G.I. loans. The increase...
Then Russell assigned the sectors-North Carolina's genial Sam Ervin, who had sat on the subcommittee hearings on the legislation, would scout the overall area; Arkansas' Bill Fulbright (the darling of Northern literary liberals) and Alabama's John Sparkman, another man of liberal repute and Adlai Stevenson's running mate in 1952, would concentrate on jury trial; Alabama's Lister Hill, a liberal in good standing with labor, would ring the alarm bells in the ranks of organized labor, which is historically opposed to the use of Federal Court injunctions in strike situations; Arkansas...
Died. Ned Sparks (real name: Edward A. Sparkman), 73, sulphur-voiced, sourpuss cynicomedian (Lady for a Day, Imitation of Life), who once asked Lloyd's of London for $100,000 insurance against having a picture taken of him grinning ("I didn't get this wooden face by accident. It's been my trademark, and it's paid me well"); of an intestinal block; in Victorville, Calif...
...Army's claim that it ought to have its own intermediate-range ballistic missile. "Both technically and tactically this weapon is very similar to artillery," he said, "and very dissimilar to aircraft." Nickerson's attorney, Robert K. Bell, former law partner of Alabama's Senator John Sparkman, implied that during the trial he might well grill high defense officials, from Charles Erwin Wilson on down...
...morally or legally, to obligate the Congress to appropriate funds in the future." Even so, the spending section of the Middle East resolution remained in trouble-until unexpected help came from a small band of Democratic Senators led by Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, and including Alabama's John Sparkman, Missouri's Tom Hennings and Stuart Symington, Colorado's John Carroll, Idaho's Frank Church and Rhode Island's John Pastore...