Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed to many Congressmen at the end of the 1958 session that the man most likely to succeed Texas' 77-year-old Sam Rayburn as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives was Arkansas' courtly, bass-voiced Wilbur Daigh Mills. With his combination of brains, earnestness and Southern charm. Mills was liked and respected on both sides of the aisle. Two years ago, at 48, he became the youngest chairman in the history of Congress' most important committee, tax-writing Ways & Means, and he showed promise of being a great one. He already knew more about...
...Alabama Democrat Carl Elliott. A step beyond the Shelley bill, it imposed some restrictions on blackmail picketing and secondary boycotts, in addition to requiring financial disclosure. Closest to the Senate's Kennedy-Erwin Labor bill (TIME, May 4), it was supported by the Democratic House leadership under Speaker Sam Rayburn...
...bought a dilapidated parcel of land, divided it into lots, became publisher of the local weekly and president of the Chamber of Commerce. Then he waited. In 1954 came the sort of man that Tallent had been waiting for: Jerry Kosseff, a glib, messianic promoter from Hollywood. On the speaker's stand Kosseff was a Bible-quoting spellbinder. Recalls one Cabazonian: "Kosseff told us, 'Look around us. This is the Sinai Desert. All we have to do is stretch out our hands and the manna will fall from heaven...
...further. "Bhutanese, Sikkimese and Ladakhis form a united family in Tibet." said he. "They have always been subject to Tibet and to the great motherland of China. They must once again be united and taught the Communist doctrine." The border countries are "like lice in our clothing," said another speaker, who demanded they be "cleansed." Asked about the Red general's remarks, Nehru commented: "It would be an extremely foolish person who would make the remarks attributed to this gentleman." As for the "very large Chinese forces all over Tibet." said Nehru, India "is quite awake and alert over...
Full-Term Presidents. Ecuador had nowhere to go but up. It did. In 1948 Manhattan-born Galo Plaza, onetime football player for U.C.L.A., won election at the head of an independent ticket. Plaza, now 53 and main speaker at the recent Puerto Rican conference of U.S. Governors, gave Ecuador its first census, developed the world's largest banana industry to relieve Ecuador's dependence on witches'-broom-diseased cacao, offered Ecuador "chemically pure" democracy, free of press censorship and police statism. He served out all his four years, the first president to do so in 28 years...