Word: veep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...here until I'm six feet under," Sewell Avery once confided to a Montgomery Ward vice president in the dazzling interval of friendship before Board Chairman Avery inevitably fired the veep for "disloyalty." To keep his tight control of the mammoth retail company for 24 years, Avery fired dozens of other executives he suspected of undermining him. Last week the plot that Avery always imagined actually happened. He was forced to resign under pressure of a palace revolution led by a majority of his own board of directors. On hearing the news, Wall Street showed how it felt about...
...Democratic Senator Alben Barkley rose to make his first speech since he returned to the Senate this year. In five minutes, Barkley made his point clear: These "petty, extraneous" provisions were so special that they would be resented by the folks back home. Having high respect for the Veep's political sagacity, the Senate hurriedly wiped out the provisions for the $1,250 account and five trips home...
...Kentucky's Alben W. Barkley, speaking to Louisville cost accountants, had a mild word of protest about the subject assigned to him. Said the ex-Veep: "Frankly, I'm unable to understand why you asked me to talk on the cost of Government. I haven't cost the Government anything in nearly two years...
...matter of age and health is bound to be an issue in the Cooper-Barkley campaign. Although the durable old Veep is in vigorous health, the indisputable fact that he is 24 years older than his opponent will weigh heavily against him with many voters. He is only a few pounds overweight (190 Ibs.), but, as he rumbles, "I always gain weight on campaigns. Out visiting these people, they put on the table Kentucky ham, fried chicken, turnip greens, boiled potatoes, three-story cake and the other good eats. It's hard for a healthy man to resist." Barkley...
...Richard Nixon said that the nickname Veep...