Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Florida Democrat George Smathers says he is for the bill, but "I can think of a couple of little amendments I might propose." Delaware Democrat J. Allen Frear and Republicans Eugene Millikin of Colorado, Edward Martin of Pennsylvania and Ralph Flanders of Vermont are, at best, lukewarm toward the bill and at worst, bitterly opposed. Louisiana Democrat Russell Long is "almost ioo%" for the bill, but Nevada Republican George Malone is 100% against it. Other views...
...Italy convinced Gerassi that what he really wanted in life was to paint pictures. To make a living while painting, he has tried his hand at some 40 different jobs. He came to the U.S. at the start of World War II, got an art teaching post at Vermont's Putney School three years later. Today his Ukrainian-born wife teaches modern languages at the school, while Gerassi paints in their two-room, picture-crammed cottage, or wanders over the Vermont hills...
With his white hair bristling, Vermont's usually mild Republican Senator George Aiken roared: "Why did Mr. Butler go to this inhuman length? . . . There can be only one answer. He does not want President Eisenhower to run for reelection. His statement could lead one to think he would be very happy if Mrs. Eisenhower were in poor health. . . Does Mr. Butler think he can make her sick by this kind of talk? . . . We have often heard the question asked, 'Just how low and evil and loathsome can an animal in human form get?' I think Mr. Butler...
...deplorable effect produced by reporting the opinions of "celebrities" as news. the false expertise of the celebrity testimonial has a powerful influence on the public. For example, a current dustcloth advertisement offers recommendations, in part, from two playwrights wives, two female television personalities, and the wife of a Vermont senator. Such testimonials entice buyers: admen don't spend funds for nothing. Just why praise from this clump of wives should be the gospel of the casual dustcloth-needing shopper I do not know. Nor do I know why the testimonial of a physicist, even a Nobel Prize physicist, on juridical...
...teams each debated are schools. Among the schools that the Council met were Brooklyn, Connecticut State Teachers College, Rutgers, and Union George Washington College placed second in the tournament, with Vermont finishing third...