Word: achesonism
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...Russia's U.N. Delegate Jacob Malik, a connoisseur of invective, promptly adopted snollygoster (mispronouncing it as snollygaster). It is, said Malik sententiously, "a difficult-to-trans-late English term" applicable to Secretary of State Dean Acheson, both of the U.S. presidential nominees-and Harry Truman. A familiar Russian phrase may be expanded to "bandits, warmongers, profiteers and snollygosters...
Nominee Bush, 57, is a handsome, hearty Yaleman (class of '17), a partner (along with Averell Harriman) in Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co., a director of the Columbia Broadcasting System and the Prudential Insurance Co., a fellow (along with Dean Acheson and Robert Taft) of the Yale Corporation. He is a crack golfer (shot a 66 last year), an enthusiastic glee clubber. He served as the party's finance chairman, 1947-50, and put on a razzle-dazzle show against razzle-dazzle Benton in the 1950 Senatorial campaign, which Bush lost by a narrow 1,102-vote margin...
...Legion's key demand was for the firing of Secretary of State Dean Acheson and a general housecleaning of the State Department. "New and stalwart leaders we must have," said the resolution, "men of strong character and undeniable integrity whom the whole world will recognize as the emancipators of Communistic enslaved peoples . . . Our patience is exhausted . . . We accept nothing less...
Harriman: That's very unfair because the President and all of the Democrats have stood up for Dean Acheson, one of the great Secretaries of State...
...were acquainted in Washington which was used by the Hiss defense. Stevenson's friends think this action can be defended, and the Republicans will doubtless try to make sure that the Democrats are kept busy defending it. So far, Stevenson has made no effort to change the Truman-Acheson line. Two weeks ago he called for resistance to Communism abroad, and at the same time derided "the pursuit of phantoms among ourselves...