Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington's bright young (23) bruiser Harmon Killebrew is a sensation of the season in his first full playing year in the majors. No mere flash in the spring, Killebrew is hitting with such power that he leads the league in both home runs and runs batted in, despite an anemic batting average of .249. With Rookie Bob Allison. 25. third in the league at week's end in home runs (27), Killebrew is the mainstay of Washington's new string of sluggers (TIME, July 20) that drew 12,198 to Griffith Stadium even as the team...
Approval could not come too soon. With little more than 4,700 miles of interstate roads finished so far, highway funds have run so low that contract awards or advertising for bids have been stopped by 24 states from Maine to Washington, including New York, Ohio, Missouri, California. These states pressured Congress to bow to the President's proposed tax boost, in the face of the oil industry that lobbied hard against it. The penny tax will raise about $960 million. After it expires in mid-1961, the compromise bill would earmark $2,445 billion from present taxes...
...farm boy who has made good in world finance is a practical, urbane and polished negotiator who knows many of the world's capitals as well as he knows Urbana (pop. 11,000) and Washington, where his father was a Congressman for eight years. As a boy he worked at odd jobs on Capitol Hill, later got degrees in both arts and law from George Washington University, married the daughter of North Carolina's Democratic Representative Homer Lyon...
Married. Jack Westland, 54, Republican Congressman from Washington, who interrupted his 1952 campaign to win the National Amateur Golf Championship after trying seven times before; and Helen M. Geis, 42, assistant to new Secretary of Commerce Frederick H. Mueller; he for the second time, she for the first; in Washington...
Died. Brigadier General (ret.) Pelham D. Glassford, 76, leathery Washington police chief when the 1932 Bonus Army marched on the Capitol; in Laguna Beach, Calif. A combat general in World War I, Glassford faced the sternest test of his career when 11,000 ragged, jobless veterans descended on Washington to demand bonuses not due them until 1945. He controlled them with tact and courage while Congress marked time, dug $773 out of his own pocket to buy them food...