Word: hiram
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...speeches. Once, he cut school and bribed a janitor with $2.50 to let him into an all-female meeting in Pasadena, where William Jennings Bryan was pouring out his oratorical silver. Before he cast his first vote. Goodie had heard Bryan a dozen times-as well as Woodrow Wilson, Hiram Johnson, William Howard Taft, Champ Clark and Theodore Roosevelt. Much of Goodie's political technique derives from his hooky-playing days with the great spellbinders. Says he: "Public speaking meant something in those days. Those men had to speak without microphones to huge crowds...
...Mutiny Court-Martial-another big Broadway winner. There will be dissenters, however. Sceneryless and recital-like, 3 for Tonight yet aims at effects as soberly startling as a lady pallbearer. It is also a kind of variety show that not too wisely shrugs at variety: beyond Master of Ceremonies Hiram Sherman, there are only the dance team...
...show needs more such perkiness. more of the zip Belafonte puts into When the Saints Go Marching In. brighter chitchat than likable Hiram Sherman brings to lifting the silver dishcovers off each new course. But the show's weak points may have popular lure. Its concert air half-conceals its TV approach; its chorus that specializes in trick sound effects substitutes vocal decor for visual. The show's big production gimmick is its extremely high-styled hick stuff...
...Republican National Committeeman at 30, and, at 33, the Republican National Committee's youngest Executive Committee chairman ever. In 1945, Governor Earl Warren, who got his political start from old Joe Knowland, appointed Joe's son Billy to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Hiram Johnson. The news first reached Major Knowland in Paris when he read of his appointment in Stars & Stripes. At 37, he was the youngest U.S. Senator (see cut). The next year Knowland defeated Congressman Will Rogers Jr. by 260,906 votes. Running for a second full term...
...tampering with Senate elections is risky, a Senator commits suicide by defying committees. Connecticut's Senator Hiram Bingham in 1928 incensed both sides of the Senate by listing a highly paid official of the Connecticut Manufacturer's Association as his clerk, and then dragging him to super-secret caucuses of Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee. Over sixty percent of the Senate voted a censure against Bingham for conduct "contrary to good morals and senatorial ethics...