Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stand. Interior Secretary Fred Seaton helped mightily to promote statehood for Alaska and Hawaii. But during Alaska's own election campaigns. Seaton's razzle-dazzle campaigning got a cool reception, largely because he was regarded as the voice of the federal "absentee landlord" in Washington. Despite his lavish promises of Republican federal help, Alaska's Democrats rolled up a big victory. Result: "Landlord"' Seaton will electioneer in low key-and only if invited-in the campaign for the June primaries now beginning in Hawaii...
...Commons, Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker deftly handled some fast-breaking problems of state. With a quick parliamentary shuffle he bottled up a CCF (socialist) demand for Canadian recognition of Red China, thus earning Washington's warm approval. He coolly denied strife-torn Newfoundland (TIME, March 23) the lavish federal aid that the province wants (leading Liberal Premier Joseph Smallwood to cry "betrayal'' and drape provincial buildings in crape). Then, as the House droned toward Easter recess, weary John Diefenbaker caught a Saskatchewan-bound jet transport for a few days off on the anniversary of his monumental...
Widows First. Cage set up quarters in a lavish suite at Sāo Paulo's Jaraguà Hotel, decided that all the Mato Grosso needed for a land boom was the old backslapping hard sell. He fixed his selling price at $2 to $5 an acre. What if the land is remote (and no more fertile than tracts being peddled by Mato Grosso State for 35? an acre)? One day the wilderness would bloom. Said Realtor Cage, nobly: "I'm going to work hard and pay back everybody that lost anything in Texas. You betcha...
...agitated as it is agile. The cast works hard for its laughs, but it does get them. Tammy Grimes chirps and wiggles saucily, although she suggests a visiting British cutup rather than a Parisian cocotte. Cecil Beaton's settings are like a brilliant tropical aquarium with a lavish flora of swirling, colorful gowns and hats...
Picking the winners before the lavish year-end supply of French literary prizes are passed around is a favorite occupation for French critics. Picking the awards apart after they are made is considered just as much fun. These days the critics were still shredding last year's choices and shedding a significant light on the current French literary scene. Items...