Word: whips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most obvious choice to take over, as Acting Majority Leader, was Kentucky's Senator Earle C. Clements, the Democratic whip, who, like Johnson, has the invaluable knack of staying on good terms with all shades of Democratic Senate factionalism. Clements is a quiet, industrious, somewhat ponderous behind-the-scenes operator-but he has yet to demonstrate that he can fill the big Senate shoes of Lyndon Johnson...
Boisterous old (67) Hugh Dalton submitted his resignation from the Shadow Cabinet and suggested that other oldsters do likewise. Emanuel Shinwell, 70, and William Whiteley, 72, longtime Labor whip, followed suit. So did schoolmasterly old (72) Chuter Ede, because he thought younger men needed experience in leadership...
...three sons. In 1953 she was arrested in a room with Emmett Perkins and Jack Santo, who were suspects in six murder cases. Barbara had a narcotic user's scars on her arms and a new charge on her record: murder. A witness testified he saw her pistol-whip a crippled widow to death. Barbara, Santo and Perkins were convicted, and Barbara became the third woman in California to be sentenced to death...
...Difference. Overnight activity was furious. Agriculture Committee Chairman Harold Cooley sent word to the New York City delegation that if the farm bill failed there was no chance of a $1.25 minimum wage law. Democratic Whip Carl Albert made the rounds with the same message. Sam Rayburn began collecting political lOU's. Telegrams from labor leaders poured in, urging Representatives to support peanuts. The C.I.O.-P.A.C. rushed in its crack legislative liaison man, Bob Oliver, to work the House corridors...
...baseball diamond, an old familiar story was repeated to an old familiar tune, as the Crime romped home, 23 to 2, behind the heady pitching of Cliff (The Whip) Thompson...