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When Congress convened in January, the Senate committeemen insisted that their senior Republican member, Hickenlooper, step back to the chair. House members demanded top place for their senior Republican, New York's W. Sterling Cole. Hickenlooper and "Stub" Cole remained good friends, but other members split: eight Senators for Hickenlooper, eight Representatives for Cole...
...From Stub to Monument. Ever since the Star was started in 1852, it has kept its eye on Washington. The paper, said its first editorial, "will preserve a strict neutrality, and whilst maintaining a fearless spirit of independence, will be devoted in an especial manner to the local interests of the beautiful city which bears the honored name of Washington." Since the Washington Monument was just a stub then, it set out to raise money to complete it. The Star campaigned for street numbers on houses, modern jails, a closed sewage system and through railroads, and even bested the Pennsylvania...
Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (Senate & House). New York's W. Sterling ("Stub") Cole, who in 1950 opposed the decision to go ahead with the hydrogen bomb, felt the country's defense program leaned too heavily on mass aerial bombardment. One of the hardest workers in Congress and an expert in the committee room, Cole is widely respected for his industry, fair-mindedness and good judgment. An internationalist, he was one of the early Eisenhower supporters...
...weekly drawing of the French National Lottery one day last month, the winning ticket was No. 301,207. To the holder of that stub went 13,000,000 tax-free francs ($37,143). The lucky man was a Roman Catholic priest, Sylvan Grandmougin, 52, Abbé of Attignéville...
...coughing raucously into his fist, saying: "Before I begin [cough-cough], I want to ask So & So [cough-cough] just what he has been smoking. It reminds me of my days back on the farm." This serves a double purpose: it gets a laugh, and all head-table smokers stub out their cigars...