Word: parliamentarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle's Foreign Minister in the Provisional government. Later he represented France at the San Francisco Conference, and vigorously pushed ratification of the agreements which are the basis of the present EDC negotiations. Premier in 1950, Vice Premier and Defense Minister in several governments, he is a popular parliamentarian, but a man of unpredictable judgment...
...poised and handsome 47, with a flair for wearing clothes and a brisk, aloof air of success, Oveta Hobby first took to politics at the age of ten when she began reading the Congressional Record aloud to her father, a lawyer and state legislator. At 20, she was parliamentarian for the Texas legislature, later went to work as a clerk on the Houston Post. She married its publisher, ex-Governor William Pettus Hobby (she was 26, he was 52) in 1931, soon became a power on the newspaper (this fall she formally became its editor & publisher). She has two children...
...chairman of the Armed Services Committee, he won acclaim last year for his fair and steady hand on the MacArthur hearings. An expert back-room organizer and a skillful floor leader, he is the best parliamentarian in the Senate. As leader of the Southern bloc, holding the balance of power, he is often called the most powerful man in the Senate...
...Assembly sessions will be conducted according to General Assembly rules of procedure. Dr. Richard Swift, visiting lecturer from New York University still act as parliamentarian for the plenary session...
...stayed awake heard a great deal of cross and petty talk. When Shinwell announced that he needed a bath and a shave, a weary Tory brigadier asked him to get his throat cut, too. For talking back to the chair, Left-Winger Sydney Silverman, a tricky little hairsplitting parliamentarian, was suspended (for five days) by a vote...