Word: poker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troubled waters. ¶ Bedeviled by what one of his psychiatrists called "the pressures of being the childless branch of a dynasty." Long announced plans to adopt 14-year-old David Rankin. whom he had met in the Galveston hospital. The boy. said the Governor, had beaten him at poker with a "Mexican straight" (a hand consisting of deuce. 4. 6. 8 and 10). The boy's surprised parents demurred at the adoption plans, but let David go to Baton Rouge to welcome Ole Earl home...
Whooping it up through most of the night on a train westbound from Chicago, Ike's grandson, David Eisenhower, n, and ten other lads played cards (David insisted that it was poker), resolutely fought off sleep. Arriving in Denver in the charge of a Secret Serviceman, David shouldered his heavy duffel bag, visited his ailing great-grandmother Elivera Doud, then rejoined his pals for a ride to Skyline Ranch, a boys' camp where he will rough it for five weeks...
...elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for the first of three terms. He made a House name for himself in hard-digging committee investigations, e.g., of Race-Baiter Gerald L. K. Smith, of food-rationing abuses during World War II. In 1945 President Harry Truman, a poker companion of Anderson's, named him Secretary of Agriculture, succeeding Henry A. Wallace. Serving at that post until 1948, Anderson was a staunch advocate of flexible farm supports, has stuck steadfastly to that position ever since, won the gratitude of the Eisenhower Administration for his support of Ezra Taft Benson. Elected...
...Force Brigadier General Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr., 46, son of the Army's first Negro general officer, was nominated by Dwight Eisenhower for promotion to two-star rank. As a major general, poker-backed West Pointer Davis, now deputy chief of staff at Air Force advance headquarters in West Germany, would become the highest-ranking Negro in U.S. armed forces annals...
...M.I.T. slimmed its portfolio from 128 to 77 stocks, concentrated in defensive stocks (utilities, foods, tobacco, etc.), better able to withstand the Depression. By 1933 Robinson and his staff saw light ahead, and M.I.T. began switching out of defensive stocks and into railroads, automobiles, mining and steel. With a poker player's eye, Robinson could look at a company's present and guess its future. He personally researched the Texas Co. (now Texaco, Inc.), persuaded the trustees to buy 15,000 shares. The trust kept on buying until it had put $9,400,000 in Texas Co.; today...