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Word: vinson (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least, the new Harvard man must wonder and worry about what his venture into highest education will bring him. After all, learning and frustration often cross. At the same time, he is terribly aware that his future depends on the unpredictable actions of Major General Hershey and Congressman Vinson of Georgia and, of course. Premier Joseph Stalin. No, this is not a beginning to crow about, hardly a start to the supposedly leisurely, satisfying process of learning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Uses of History | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...interpreted by the late Chief Justice Fred Vinson, the First Amendment to the Constitution is based on the theory that "speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda," and free debate will be a bulwark against tyranny. Just what Kelley Iser has to add to that debate is not clear at first glance. Kelley is a California nightclub dancer whose specialty was described by police as "30 seconds of wiggling around on her hands and knees with her breasts exposed." Yet the California Supreme Court has just ruled that Kelley's top less dance is entitled to First Amendment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Decency: Kelley's Dance | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...well as in Switzerland-account for at least 8% of the transactions on the New York Stock Exchange. In singling out Switzerland, U.S. officials seemed most disturbed about their lack of precise knowledge about all that may be going on. Swiss bankers, Assistant U.S. Attorney General Fred M. Vinson Jr.* told the committee, "are difficult to get information from of any sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Swiss Numbers Game | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

Daniel Walker is a model of rec titude and respectability. He is a 1945 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a former editor in chief of the North western University Law Review, who later became law clerk to U.S. Chief Justice Fred Vinson. Now, at 46, he is vice president and general counsel of Marcor Inc., the $2.3 billion parent of Montgomery Ward and the Container Corporation of America. On top of that, he is the Mafia-fighting president of Chicago's crime commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago: The Blue Curtain | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...White House Press Secretary George Christian, Lady Bird "thought it best that her husband step out after one elected term?but she didn't pressure him. She's not that kind of woman." She did nudge him from time to time. During one visit to retired Congressman Carl Vinson, who returned to Georgia after 50 years in the House, she said: "See, Lyndon, there's a man who can leave Washington and be happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE RENUNCIATION | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

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