Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...photographic as anything modern processes have shown since. Yet Jack could whip up a portrait in an hour or two for anyone who cared to pose in his paint shop amid pails of whitewash and hand-mixed house paints. At one period he traveled over the hills of southern Vermont and New Hampshire selling spectacles to the farmers' wives, but always ready to do a portrait in short order. In a small weekly paper his advertisement read...
...chairman of the G.O.P. National Committee; New York's James Mead is on the Federal Trade Commission. Still others hold important Government jobs outside Washington; Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. is U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (his, predecessor, ex-Senator Warren Austin, is living in retirement at his Vermont home); Clare Boothe Luce is Ambassador to Italy...
North Dakotan Langer seemed to be dragging his feet on other proposals, among them Illinois Republican Everett Dirksen's 25% limitation on income-tax rates and Vermont Republican Ralph Flanders' measure to make the Constitution acknowledge "the authority and law of Jesus Christ...
...want to protect their oil interests, e.g., tidelands oil and the depletion allowance. Last, week in Washington, as a congressional committee started hearings on tax-free foundations, there were rumblings against H. L. Hunt's depletion-fed foundation, Facts Forum. Republican Senators, Delaware's John Williams and Vermont's George Aiken, are out to cut the allowance...
Like most small colleges, Middlebury is fraternity-dominated. The Interfraternity Council controls the fraternities, with the Dean of Men advising. "We've been well pleased by the workings of it," the administration reports, and there has been little interference, though the right to interfere is maintained. Because of the Vermont law against drinking under 21 and because of strong objection to College rowdyism by the village townspeople, the Council has ruled that there is to be no drinking in public view. It must be taken inside the fraternities...