Word: chaired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overtaxed. In Atlanta, audits revealed that Georgia's Comptroller General Zack D. Cravey spent $1,180 for an office desk, $295 for a posture chair, $28 for an enlargement of a picture with the inscription: "DO YOU WORK TOO HARD...
...Robbie had just got out of the hospital, where he was treated for acute anemia, and we needed the money for medicine. They wouldn't listen. They're rather coldhearted and impersonal down there." But Margaret Lockwood had a plan of action: she planted herself in a chair and announced she would stay right there until the paycheck was returned...
...children did the rest. Daughter René, dipping into a box of raisins, managed to spill about half of them on the tax office floor, happily trampled them into a gooey mess. Son Robbie wet his diapers, and Margaret Lockwood calmly changed them, draping the reeking castoffs over a chair...
Rockefeller explained that he would like to see Bridges, partly because he knew of Bridges' long-standing interest in civil defense (this was news to Styles Bridges, who has shown about 'as much interest in civil defense as in establishing a Franklin Delano Roosevelt chair of political science at New Hampshire University). Could Bridges have lunch with Rockefeller on Tuesday? Sorry, but Bridges already had a luncheon date. Would Bridges meet Rocky Tuesday afternoon? Sorry, but Bridges was off to New Hampshire to keep a speaking engagement. Would Bridges like to fly to New Hampshire in the Rockefeller...
...There had been hardly any effort to block the adjournment; in fact, the motions for adjournment were made and roared through by many of Long's own legislative leaders and henchmen. Ole Earl's own reaction was another clue. Rushing half-shaved from his barber's chair to the skyscraper state capitol, he arrived just as the adjournment vote was being tallied, made a speech which was a startling departure from his usual profane tirades (TIME, June 15). "I ain't mad at anybody," Ole Earl purred. "If that's the way you like...