Word: spadework
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With his confirmation moving to the Senate floor, Strauss was still in deep trouble. Clint Anderson was working furiously against him, had made the Strauss case a Democratic confidence vote in Anderson himself. Lewis Strauss, no man to sit idle, was doing his own spadework. dropping in on Senators' offices to enlist support. An informal tally last week showed 46 Senators favoring Strauss, 45 against-and seven key votes undecided. Among those undecided was Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, whose decision might well make the difference. But Johnson was in no hurry to make up his mind: he planned...
...Stevenson-for-President Democrats who sadly buried Adlai in 1956 are happily resurrecting him for 1960 and glancing nervously at hurdles in his path toward a third nomination. Most immediate hurdles: 1) prejudice against a two-time loser; 2) Massachusetts' John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who has been doing prodigious spadework of his own in preparation for a presidential run. Stevensonites are convinced that the money for the Kennedy boom is not Jack's but father Joe's. And they smile indulgently at the Catholic-can-win surveys, implying broadly that Roman Catholic Jack Kennedy still...
...musical ambition since the time he saw the opera as a child. When the Met's Rudolf Bing invited him to New York in 1950, his visa was denied-Christoff never learned why. This time, the combination of eased diplomatic relations with Communist nations and some careful spadework by the San Francisco Opera officials did the trick...
...operatic favorites looms, Mrs. Peltz and her two assistants push back the jungle of operatic ignorance a bit farther. When something old but new, e.g., next season's La Périchole (Offenbach), never before performed by the Met, comes up, the possibility of doing some spadework in virgin soil goes to her head "like wine...
...Harriman, the New Dealing multimillionaire with wide experience in the Federal Government and an important victory at the polls (in 1954, over Senator Irving Ives). As a fast-moving, "inactive" candidate, Harriman has been the subject of complimentary remarks by former President Harry Truman and the beneficiary of considerable spadework by Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio...