Word: wyatt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). The Hasty Heart, with John Lund, Jane Wyatt, Richard Greene...
Died. Hattie Wyatt Caraway, 72, first woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate;* in Falls Church, Va. Widow of eloquent, acid-tongued Senator (1921-31) Thaddeus Horatius Caraway of Arkansas, she was appointed to his seat by Governor Harvey Parnell, got elected to full terms in '32 and '38. She sat quietly in the Senate for 13 years, always dressed in black, made about one speech a year, voted the straight New Deal line...
...cancellation of the Anglo-Egyptian treaty of alliance he probably intended only to please his subjects, who were then engaged in their national pastime of baying at Britain. But Farouk's outburst had consequences he had not foreseen. Last week in London, 32-year-old Labor M.P. Woodrow Wyatt decided that Egypt probably was not a very reliable ally anyway and demanded that Britain's Labor Government stop selling arms to the Egyptians, beginning with a shipment of 16 new Centurion tanks just about to be delivered...
State Dinner. At first, British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin brushed off Wyatt's demand with the stubborn statement: "We entered into a contract for the tanks and the Egyptians paid for them. I do not like breaking contracts too easily." By clever parliamentary maneuvering, Wyatt and a few other discontented Labor M.P.s arranged that the arms-for-Egypt issue should be debated at a night meeting of the House which Bevin could not attend. (Together with Clement Attlee and Winston Churchill, Bevin was off to a state dinner at Buckingham Palace in honor of Queen Juliana of The Netherlands...
...this week when the House Ways & Means Committee reopens its hearings on the proposed tax. Last week Ruml announced that more than 100 top businessmen had joined in forming the Business Committee on Emergency Corporate Taxation, enlisted the help of such onetime New Dealers as ex-Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt and ex-OPAdministrator Leon Henderson to marshal their case at the hearings...