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...sulk long. When a congressional seat became vacant the next the year, he personable decided to run- campaigning and, of his aided by wife Betty he won. Two years later, in 1944 Fulbright tried for the senate and won again. His opponent: Homer Adkins...
...evils of party divisions between the White House and Congress. To prevent a deadlocked Government, he suggested that if Republicans seized Congress, Harry Truman really ought to appoint Republican Arthur Vandenberg Secretary of State, then resign himself and let Vandenberg succeed to the presidency (the vice-presidency was vacant, and in those days the Secretary of State was still next in line). The G.O.P. did win, and after the election the reporter asked Fulbright if he still felt the same way. Sure, he said. "That overeducated Oxford s.o.b.," fumed Harry. "He is the best argument there is for the land...
Internal Revenue. As Internal Revenue Commissioner, a job left vacant since Mortimer Caplin resigned in July, the President picked Sheldon S. Cohen, 37, who just a year ago left the Washington law firm of Arnold, Fortas & Porter to become chief counsel at the Internal Revenue Service. There Cohen streamlined the legal branch, pruned excess personnel, installed automatic data-processing and microfilm files for his 650 attorneys. He hammered the point home to his staff that the Government's aim in any tax litigation was not just to win the case but to set principles of law. Cohen hopes...
...ones. Eventually the galaxy reaches a limit, breaks up and expels into space a clot of matter that forms the embryo of a young, growing galaxy. In accordance with some principle that McCrea does not claim to understand, new galaxies are born at the proper rate to fill the vacant spaces left by the general expansion of the universe...
...protesters charged that instead of taking the Harvard-owned land--which is largely vacant--the Mental Health Department is conspiring with Harvard to create a huge medical complex, at the expense of local residents...