Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stuart Symington was marching through Georgia, booked solidly ahead for shooting matches from Massachusetts to Florida over the next weeks. Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey scored an unexpected bull's-eye with the United Auto Workers in Atlantic City, pushed on to Denver. In Dallas, House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who customarily presides over the Democratic Convention, nominated fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson for his presidential candidate. Illinois' Adlai Stevenson held court with visiting politicos but maintained an inscrutable silence at his Libertyville home. California's Governor
Reginald Maudling, 42, Paymaster General. The youngest member of the Cabinet and the man who managed Britain's luckless attempt to set up a Europe-wide Free Trade Area, Maudling is unflappable and a persuasive speaker, with the gift of making complex topics sound both interesting and simple. But he is regarded by many as incurably lazy-a flaw that limits his hopes. He is discussed for appointment as President of the Board of Trade, or for the proposed Ministry of Science...
...since taking office. "We are already very tired of so many threats," said Diario in a front-page editorial, "of so many unjust and gratuitous accusations." Diario went on to a withering analysis of freedom under Castro: "Public figures may say one thing in private but on the speaker's stand they say something else. That is not freedom of expression but terror and adulation . . . The idea has been created that everyone who disagrees is an undesirable element." This kind of liberty, said Diario, is like a garden with the sign: "Enter-but beware of dogs." Added Avance Columnist...
...bond referendum was defeated; but just before the next one in 1957 President Eisenhower spoke twice on television in a post-Sputnik appeal for more science education. That did it. St. Charles kicked in the money. Says Schaerer: "Never has a school district had a more talented and renowned speaker supporting...
Most of the talk early in the term, in fact, dealt with possible difficulties Johnson and Speaker Ray-burn could expect to have in holding the rampant liberals of their large majority in line. The situation, from their point of view, seemed truly formidable. In the greatest landslide since 1936, the democrats gained 15 seats in the Senate and 47 in the House, giving them nearly a two thirds majority in each house, and it was confidently predicted that this preshadowed a new era of immoderate liberalism in Congress. What emerged, however, was far closer to moderate dullness...