Word: montana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Labor-reform bills are pending in twelve other states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Washington. In addition, New York passed a bill this year; Indiana's legislature adjourned without acting on one; and Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus vetoed a mild reform bill...
Some Democrats, feeling the sting of recent Republican attacks on "spenders," grumbled that foreign aid might still be the place to cut. Such ardent Democratic believers in economic aid as Montana's Mike Mansfield and Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy were disappointed at the Draper committee's accent on arms. And Illinois' Everett Dirksen, Senate Republican leader, made the best of both worlds by saying that if the Draper committee recommended $400 million more than the President's $3.9 billion, then the least the Congress could do was to get busy and pass the $3.9 billion...
Language was not the only trouble. The story itself seemed dated. When the book was published in 1940, Hemingway hardly had to explain why a teacher of Spanish from Montana would give up everything to fight in Spain. But today Robert Jordan, even in the hands of as good an actor as Jason Robards Jr., is hardly more than a cliché cut out of old newspapers. Maria Schell was moving enough as Maria, but the sentimentally written character scarcely seemed real, while Maureen Stapleton lacked the necessary hardness for Pilar. Eli Wallach was superb as the irresponsible gypsy Rafael...
...policy as too rigid and inflexible," and those who sneer at a U.S. foreign policy based on moral principles. Before he had taken his seat, he had crossed swords with such eminent senior Democratic defenders of flexibility as Arkansas' William Fulbright, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and Montana's Mike Mansfield, assistant majority leader. And he had provoked top-drawer praise from foreign-policy specialists on both sides of the aisle...
Plates of Gold. The daughter of Colonel William Boyce Thompson, who had built his fortune in South African diamonds and Montana copper, Montana-born Maggie Biddle had shared an estate estimated at $85 million on his death in 1930. She divorced a New York banker the following year and married Philadelphia Socialite Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., the dashing soldier who subsequently became U.S. envoy to Norway and Poland (and is now adjutant general of the state of Pennsylvania). They, too, were divorced after the war, but still fond of the diplomatic high life, Maggie Biddle set up a Paris...