Word: washingtons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Labor: Right-to-work proposals, on the ballot in California, Washington, Idaho, Kansas, Ohio and Colorado, set off the greatest Big-Labor registration drive in history. It was generally assumed that labor's get-out-the-vote efforts could only help Democrats. But by last week a good many labor leaders were not quite so sure. Right to work itself seemed to be holding its own in almost every state where it was a direct issue. And there was a real possibility that some of the voters urged to the polls by labor might themselves vote to curb labor...
...lonely Washington, Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman George Smathers, the Florida sparkler, called for reporters and tartly read off Butler for discussion that "takes people's minds off the virtues of the Democratic Party." In Louisiana, slow-burning Governor Earl Long, brother to the late Huey, proclaimed: "I've been hearing things like that 'integrate or get out' for a long time. You can tell Mr. Butler I said I don't intend to do either." Many a Southern politician echoed the sharp words of Mississippi Governor J. P. Coleman: "Instead of the South being thrown...
...Senate seats up for election on Nov. 4, 19 are now held by Republicans, 14 by Democrats. Of the Democratic seats, these eleven seem safe: Florida, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Washington (Democrat Edmund Muskie unseated Republican Senator Fred Payne in Maine's September election). But Republican incumbents are breathing fairly easy only in four states: Delaware, Nebraska, North Dakota and Ohio. The tough Senate scraps...
Returning to Washington last week from a grueling, 24,000-mile trip to Formosa, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles got down from an Air Force KC-135 jet transport to face a battery of cameras and microphones. Question: "Did Chiang Kai-shek agree to a reduction of forces on the offshore islands?" Dulles: "We talked about matters far more fundamental than that. That's just a detail...
...Taunton, Mass. 64 Keating, James P. '59 G 20 5.9 198 Pittsburgh, Pa. 65 Barthelmes, Richard B. '61 G 19 5.11 185 Hamden, Conn. 66 Wilson, Roger K. '61 G 19 6.1 190 Sioux Falls, S.D. 67 Finley, Alexander '61 G 19 6.0 190 Washington, D.C. 68 Weidler, Jerry L. '60 G 20 6.3 220 Sumner, Iowa 70 Pillsbury, Robert L. '61 T 18 6.0 200 Norwood, Mass. 71 Nelson, K. Eric '61 T 19 6.2 210 Washington, D.C. 72 Anderson, Harold E. '59 G 21 6.3 215 Medford, Mass. 73 Shaunessy, Robert...