Word: thereupon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vermont Democrat Philip Hoff, 38, first Governor of his party in Vermont since 1854, went before a state legislature ruled 4 to 1 by Republicans. Hoff played it cagey. Promising the legislators a "new and fresh approach," he thereupon suggested that they adjourn...
Behind McCormack's promise lay the recent fight over a 15-member Rules Committee, which presumably would not act as a roadblock to Administration legislation (TIME, Jan. 18). McCormack had thought he needed the ten votes of Georgia's House delegation to win that battle. He thereupon entered into negotiations with old Carl Vinson, dean of the House Georgians. In return for Georgia's votes-plus Landrum's promise that he would support both the President's tax program and medicare-McCormack agreed to get Landrum on Ways and Means...
...Someone forgot to turn off a public-address system, and their secret deliberations blared throughout the U.N. One gloomy listener said the neutrals sounded in private exactly as they do in public-breathless and inchoate. The conference did result in a plea to Acting Secretary-General U Thant, who thereupon started to work out a kind of truce. Then, two days later, came Stevenson's best performance since he took...
About two years ago, I was watching a historical film at the Brooklyn Fox Theater. In one scene the leading character called out, "Ajax!" Thereupon, about half the audience let go with a hearty and melodious "... the foaming cleanser...
...belongs to J. J. Hickey. The Republican: ex-Governor Milward Simpson. The last time the two met, in 1958, Hickey beat Simpson. But when Republican Senator-elect Keith Thompson died in late 1960, Hickey resigned the governorship and turned the chair over to Secretary of State Jack Gage, who thereupon appointed Hickey to replace Thompson. Hickey's ploy stirred up a lot of voter discontent. Last week, just after he returned from Washington to get his campaign going, Hickey suffered a heart attack that will keep him sidelined until after the votes are counted...