Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nothing makes a New Yorker happier than the sight of an old building rich in memories of the past-unless it is tearing the damn thing down and replacing it with something in chromium and plate glass, with no traditions at all. Last week, as Manhattan vibrated to its biggest building boom since the '20s, old landmarks were toppling all over town...
...labor, had been making muscles at Senator Robert A. Taft for years. But as the 1950 elections approached, the Administration's menacing attitude seemed to subside a little. Ohio's able Governor Frank Lausche, the Democrats' hottest vote-getter, decided not to run against Taft; last week Cleveland's Mayor Tom Burke, the next best bet, politely begged...
...rumor that Harry Truman wanted Bob Taft to win and thus remain a leading G.O.P. presidential candidate: the one candidate the President felt certain he could lick, hog-tied and blindfolded, in 1952. On a trip to Ohio, Democratic National Chairman Bill Boyle piously denied the rumor. Last week Harry Truman predicted, in equally pious tones, that the Democrats would carry Ohio. Taft's probable opponent, one Joseph T. ("Jumping Joe") Ferguson, an amiable political mediocrity who is state auditor, cried that he would massacre his foe. But the winter book money was on Taft...
...except for one question to which Dr. Binger also had no answer. How did Chambers happen to have the notes in Hiss's handwriting and the stolen State Department documents typed out on Hiss's machine? "That is outside my province," said the expert witness. Early this week the defense rested...
...Last week Jimmy Byrnes concluded that the answer was yes. His health was fine (a heart scare that led to his resignation as Secretary of State had proved a false alarm) and his election almost certain. His three opponents in the Democratic primary-the only election that counts-were scarcely serious competition for a man who had been Secretary of State, a Supreme Court Justice, and assistant President to Franklin D. Roosevelt...