Word: williams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Union of South Africa: Philip Kingsland Crowe, 51, wartime OSS officer in East Asia, Ambassador to Ceylon (1953-56), lately Secretary Dulles' special assistant for confidential press relations (policy guidance, planned news leaks). Crowe's successor as briefing officer: Pennsylvania Banker William Warren Scranton, 41, civic leader, whose ancestors gave their name to the Pennsylvania industrial city of Scranton, formerly Slocum Hollow...
...Cambodia: William C. Trimble, 51, Foreign Service officer since 1931, lately deputy chief of the U.S. mission in Bonn...
...least six Democrats of the 82 new House members listed their wives on the payroll. Vermont's William H. Meyer, reported paying a nepotic pittance of a salary: his wife, Bertha, gets only $4,047.37 a year. Others, notably Iowa's Democratic Leonard Wolf, are more generous: wife Marilyn Wolf collects $13.344.62 a year -an amount, by curious coincidence, that is the exact maximum permitted for any one congressional staffer...
Picking up his telephone in Milwaukee one August night in 1957, Wisconsin's Edward William Proxmire offered particular congratulations to Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson on Johnson's 49th birthday. Boomed the Democrat who had just won Joe McCarthy's seat in an upset election: "Senator Johnson, I've got the biggest birthday present of 'em all for you; me." Last week Bill Proxmire became an Indian giver. Incensed over what he considers Johnson's highhanded conservative control of the Senate, Liberal Proxmire went into rebellion...
Heading eastward on a business trip, Illinois' Republican Governor William G. Stratton decided to add another stop to his itinerary under the heading of special business. Stratton phoned New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, an old friend from service in the 80th Congress, asked Javits to arrange a quiet meeting in his Manhattan apartment. There Illinois' Stratton, who would like to be Vice President of the U.S., chatted secretly for two hours with New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who made a special trip down from Albany...