Word: underwoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Named last week to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of West Virginia's Democratic Senator Matthew M. Neely: State Republican Chairman John Dempsey Hoblitzell Jr., 45, who directed the successful 1956 campaign of Republican Governor Cecil Underwood, first Republican governor of the state since 1928. Hoblitzell's appointment scales the Democratic majority in the Senate down from...
...Representative and governor whose acid-tongued criticism and flowery eulogies became congressional legends; of cancer., after long illness; in Bethesda. Md. A fiery New Dealer, Neely served (since 1949) as chairman of the Senate's District of Columbia Committee (Washington's "unofficial mayor"). Republican Governor Cecil H. Underwood's expected appointment of a successor to Neely's Senate seat will reduce the Senate's Democratic majority from...
Though their state ranks only No. 41 in the amount it spends on each pupil, West Virginians have long balked at putting any more money into their schools. Last week, in his "state of the state" message to the legislature. Governor Cecil Underwood finally made a proposal he never dared make before-a bill to give education an additional $15 million a year in state funds. Reason for his sudden boldness: the shock felt throughout the state by the revelations of a 476-page document called the Feaster Report...
...gifts: I'm sure you'll find nothing cooks like a Tappan range. This portable sewing machine features an automatic lubricator; for entertaining in the home you'll love using this Gallo rollcart. This Samsonite luggage is the first luggage made of magnesium." There was the "Underwood portable with the golden touch," HIS and HERS golf bags (Shirl: "I promise to lose"), "famous carpets from the looms of Mohawk," a poodle from a "famed" Peekskill kennel, then Keenan Wynn in a scene from Wagon Train. "Do I turn my back on the camera?" asked Actress Shirl incredulously...
MERGER TALKS are going on between Beverly Hills' Litton Industries, Inc., fast-growing maker of electronic equipment (TIME, April 29), and Underwood Corp. (1956 operating loss: $3,571,420), which recently talked merger with National Cash Register...