Word: accords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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House Speaker Sam Rayburn fielded this supposed hot potato with the calm of an old pro outfielder gathering in a lazy fly. Said Mr. Sam, with Ways & Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills at his elbow: "We are in accord with the President's suggestion that there be no decrease in existing taxes this year." Mills promptly got Ike's proposal reported out of his committee intact...
...last audience in America to which I would make a serious address would be a reunion of college graduates. In such reunions men honoring the ancient shrines of learning with one accord breathe one prayer: 'Make me a sophomore just for tonight.' And few prayers are more unfailingly answered...
...capacity of the Eisenhower Administration for delay aften verges on the remarkable. Its current efforts to halt the recession, for instance, have been largely confined to attempts to predict its end. While these prognosticatory feats accord in general with the Administration's "confidence" line of economic thinking, they do not represent any serious attempts to analyze or cure the decline...
...order to placate the Western allies, who until recently have been obstinately optimistic over the value of summit talks. In an effort to satisfy this optimism and to alleviate the sources of dissension in NATO, the United States has bent over backwards to reach some sort of preliminary accord with Moscow...
...Khrushchev seeks a summit conference primarily for the vague generalizations of illusory accord which would come out of it, euphemistic statements corroborating the U.S.S.R.'s peaceful intent. It is possible, and even probable, that the U.S. would agree to the issuance of public statements of this nature, if only to satisfy the "solutionist" optimism of the American people. As at Yalta, it might seem necessary for the Government to reach agreement for agreement's sake, to underscore the positive value of negotiation, even at the expense of future American policy. At Geneva in 1956 what at first appeared...