Word: williams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WILLIAM A. EGAN-THE 49TH STATE'S FIRST ELECTED GOVERNOR...
Last session, when California's Republican Senator William Knowland announced his retirement as the Senate's G.O.P. leader to run for Governor of California, the handful of Eisenhower Republicans started talking about a real chance to take over. By last August the insurgent planning revolved around Vermont's George Aiken, New Jersey's Clifford Case and New York's Jacob Javits. After such Old Guard Republicans as Nevada's George Malone, Ohio's John Bricker-and Bill Knowland himself-got soundly whipped in the November elections, Aiken & Co. felt sure that they were...
...before the organized stoning of the U.S.'s William Rountree in Baghdad (see box), the Communist hierarchy in the Middle East met in Damascus, capital of Nasser's northern province of Syria. Arab Communists have become increasingly open in their defiance of Nasser. But they took a prudent step: they divided their Syrian and Lebanese apparatus, so that if either is broken up, the other will survive. The general party line laid down in Damascus last week is understood to have been decided at a conference in Tirana, Albania last October. It is to exploit their opportunity...
...city like a hunted criminal. Yet, if Fritzlan had followed the route from the airport that the mob had expected, the embassy car would certainly have been stopped, probably overturned and set afire, and the men inside could have been in gravest peril. If General Kassem had not wanted William Rountree humiliated or worse, he showed an inefficiency and stupidity not previously apparent...
...Appointed Bishop William E. Cousins of Peoria, Ill. archbishop of Milwaukee to replace Archbishop Albert G. Meyer, who was transferred to Chicago (TIME. Oct. 6) to succeed the late Samuel Cardinal Stritch. Milwaukee's new archbishop, 56, a native Chicagoan, was auxiliary to Cardinal Stritch from 1949 until...