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...financial boss of his father-in-law's John Bean Manufacturing Co., a small producer of agricultural spray pumps and prune-drying equipment. Almost immediately, he launched the company-which in 1929 was rechristened Food Machinery Corp.* on a course of pell-mell expansion, which he is fond of calling "aggressive diversification.'' One after another. Davies added new lines of farm machinery, food processing and packaging equipment and agricultural chemicals. In 1948, branching out still farther, he acquired New York's Westvaco Chemical Corp.. which with other acquisitions has since grown into an industrial chemicals...
...successfully opposed the President whenever Kennedy played obvious partisan politics. Prime examples were the Republican votes that defeated Kennedy's medicare program and the Administration attempt to set up a Cabinet-level Department of Urban Affairs (which was to be headed by a Negro). Democrat Kennedy is fond of blaming Republicans for the failures of the New Frontier's programs in the current Congress. But there is another side to that coin. It has been only with Republican votes that the Ad ministration has achieved any wins at all. The most recent instance was Kennedy's proposal...
...years or so, and confidently informed 565 fellow teetotalers at the group's annual convention in 86-proof Miami that "the liquor industry is worried about us." "She has the most fantastic figure since Venus de Milo - absolutely perfect," recalled one disarmed Hollywood gent who retains fond memories of French Actress Agnes Laurent, 26, although she once bopped him. Not so for Cinema Scion Arthur Loew Jr., 35, who was rushed to the emergency room of the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital to have nine stitches taken in his profile after the quick-firing actress slung a snifter of brandy...
Kennedy is fond of shrugging this fact off by lumping Southern Democrats with Republicans as members of the irresponsible opposition. This ignores a couple of the political facts of life: 1) a lot of non-Southern Democrats have voted against Kennedy programs, and 2) the South remains the stronghold of the Democratic Party; without that region Kennedy would never have become President...
Back to Caesar. The cloture vote came hard to Senators fond of tracing the history of the legislative filibuster back to ancient Rome, where an eloquent praetor named Julius Caesar tried (unsuccessfully) to talk to death a measure ordering the execution of Catiline's coconspirators...