Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...house, Yoshida drummed his fingers on his desk while members filled up a black-lacquered box with yellow (aye) vote markers-and thereby kicked him out of office. Of the 229 Diet members who voted no confidence in Yoshida, 22 were members of his own Liberal Party; 218 Liberals stuck with their Premier...
Irascible Patient. It was an awesome job Denver had set aside only $6,800 for traffic control in 1948. Barnes asked for $1,000,000. The mayor blanched. So did the city council. But Barnes stuck to his guns, and got a first installment of $400,000 (in four years he spent $2,000,000) He was immediately embroiled in battle with the populace at large-Denver gagged, struggled, complained vehemently that it was being victimized by a madman...
With pastepot and pencil. René Mayer tried to patch the twain. He and Foreign Minister Georges Bidault hurried across the Channel to see what the British could offer to placate the German-wary French Socialists. Britain stuck to its decision to stay out of EDC, but was willing to promise its "continued full support" to the European Army. And Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden announced that when he visits Washington next week, he will ask the U.S. to join Britain in a pledge extending NATO's 20-year guarantees (which include the stationing of their troops on the Continent...
After a stint in Army Special Services, Granz put on another concert in 1944. The posters were supposed to read "Jazz Concert at the Philharmonic Auditorium," but there was too little space. The cards read "Jazz at the Philharmonic," and the name stuck...
...C.I.O.; of a heart attack; in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Hardworking, hard-drinking Allan Haywood, born a miner's son in Yorkshire. England, came to the U.S. in 1906. He followed John L. Lewis and Philip Murray up labor's ladder, recruited unions for the C.I.O., stuck with Murray when Lewis made his trumpeting breakaway in 1942. As right-hand man to ailing President Murray, Haywood seemed heir apparent, but after Murray's death last November the C.I.O. passed over aging Haywood, elected U.A.W. President Walter Reuther instead...