Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally, the President was reminded of a remark he had made in 1948 when, as the Army's outgoing chief of staff, he had offered his personal prescription for retirement : "Put a chair on the porch. Sit in it for six months, and then begin to rock slowly." Had his ideas changed since then? Said the President of the U.S., looking like almost anything but a candidate for a rocking chair: "I don't know how long this type of retirement would last, but at least I want to sit in that chair until I really want...
...Rayburn gaveled through two friendly relief measures for his longtime opposite number and friend, Joseph W. Martin Jr., ousted Republican Floor Leader (TIME, Jan. 19). The resolutions: authorization for Martin (as the only living former Speaker of the House) to keep the chauffeured Cadillac and most of the extra staff of the leadership office he lost to Indiana's Congressman Charles Halleck. Mr. Sam grandly ruled unanimous consent on his surprise package, despite a noisy objection from Tennessee's loose-tongued Ross ("Largemouth") Bass,*who said it was "an unusual precedent." ¶ Pennsylvania's six-term Republican...
Each of the four was prepared to pay $350,000 for the convention, plus assorted fringe benefits. Studying the offers, the Democrats eventually settled on Los Angeles' fringes, e.g., profits from sales of the convention program, hotel and working space for the convention staff. Going home to prepare for the first political convention in the city's history, happy Angelenos looked forward to snagging a second. With TV networks lobbying for a cost-cutting pair of conventions in the same hall, the G.O.P. might also choose Los Angeles' new sports arena...
...agricultural program last month, Lysenko was reaping a sweet political harvest. On his 60th birthday he won his seventh Order of Lenin. When someone complained to the Central Committee that the official Botanical Journal had disparaged the old tree grafter's views, Khrushchev interrupted: "The editorial staff should be replaced." When the speaker then added that some Soviet scientists last year had said Lysenko was "through both in theory and in practice." Khrushchev cut in: "Tsitsin [a distinguished botanist in the Academy of Sciences] said it. He should have been asked at a party meeting why he spoke that...
Lampoon officers and old Fortnightly members scrambled last night to take credit for the Saturday parody of the CRIMSON by the Harvard Yearbook staff...