Word: bourbon
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...announced that he will retire within the next fortnight, paid in full ($65,000 a year) through April 1952. Chandler's departure will leave only the guiding hand of an executive council to settle baseball's disputes. But after six years of hearing Happy's bourbon baritone intone "Ah loves baseball"-and not much else-the club owners seemed in no hurry to name a successor...
...member of the Social Relations Department was anxious to be quoted on the issue. Henry A. Murray '15, lecturer on Clinical Psychology, said, "This is just one of those preposterous generalizations which make fine conversation if we all sit around and drink bourbon...
...during the past 18 months." Dirksen saw MacArthur's firing as a victory for Great Britain, and the State Department as "a branch of Downing Street." Far out in right field, Joe McCarthy announced in Milwaukee that the recall was "a Communist victory won with the aid of bourbon and Benedictine." Of Harry Truman he said in a press conference: "The son of a bitch should be impeached." Nebraska's Ken Wherry took to the air to ask: "Who got us into this war? This is Truman's war and General MacArthur, under orders of the Commander...
...Vote for the Stupidest." Haunted by the fear of both Bonaparte and Bourbon restorations, the Frenchmen who reconstituted the Republic after the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 reduced the powers of the President to almost honorary dimensions. Thereafter, the jealous deputies usually selected as President the kind of man who would not try to broaden the scope...
There are always guests for lunch. Through one week the visitors' list may note such diverse personalities as General and Mrs. Eisenhower, a mountain climber just returned from the Himalayas, and the Comtesse de Paris, some of whose husband's Bourbon ancestors resided briefly in the Elysée. Most afternoons and evenings are packed with official receptions, dinners and speeches, but the President prefers a quiet evening at home-dining with Madame Auriol in a small bedsitting room. When he has no official engagement, he tries...