Word: veep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman Senator. Tangling jovially with the late Alben Berkley in a private joust, Capehart twitted the then Democratic Senator from Kentucky: "If it hadn't been for the Ohio River, there wouldn't be any Kentucky. It would all have been Indiana." Confidentially responded future Veep Barkley: "Yes, and if that were true, I would have been the Senator...
...California primary, though he thought Missouri's Stuart Symington could. This was enough to start a cautious Symington-Brown boomlet, which Symington backers hope to push into a second stage next winter at a Symington testimonial dinner in Missouri-with Brown as the featured speaker and most favored veep. ¶In Norman, Okla., oil-rich Oklahoma Senator Robert S. Kerr (himself a Democratic presidential hopeful in 1952) was quick to announce his support of Colleague Lyndon Johnson's candidacy. ¶ In Peoria, Ill., Lawyer Stephen Mitchell, Democratic National Committee chairman during Adlai Stevenson's 1952 campaign, announced...
...make believe, young man, that I did not hear that"). Showing who is boss, Bill Lear, without warning, turned to Director Handschumacher at the quarterly board meeting, asked if he would take over. Says Lear of Handschumacher, a former Lear vice president, who left in 1957 to become a veep of Rheem Manufacturing Co.: "I told him not to get too far away, that we had plans...
Word went round Detroit that G.M. was ready to scrap well-liked Ed Ragsdale. Finding a replacement was not easy: few of G.M.'s success-conscious comers wanted to take on Buick's woes. One G.M. veep, so the story went, was offered Ragsdale's job, nervously said no: "This is a promotion I don't deserve. Can't you please find somebody else to reward...
...Unruly Veep. Another crisis was still to come. Under the impression that Frondizi's troubles made him ripe for ousting, a group of his political enemies attempted a coup. For their front man they chose Vice President Gomez. Gomez went to Frondizi, told him that unless he stepped down and allowed Gomez to step up as head of a coalition government, blood would be shed. Frondizi quickly checked with his army chiefs, found no sign of dissension, then faced Gomez. Outmaneuvered, Gomez backed off. later claimed that it was "all a tremendous mistake" and that...