Word: achesonism
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...chamber where the final stage of the rent control hearing process is held, and the often months-long wait that preceded it, landlords' and tenants' tempers sometimes grow short by the time they face the board members. To end a repetitious argument or enforce quiet among the audience. Chairman Acheson Callaghan picks up his gavel and taps it with the authority of an annoyed judge. "It's not a court," says one resident familiar with the board's procedures. "But there's a lot on the line so already you're uncomfortable as a tenant...
Buckley embroiders this story with subplots and uneven characterizations of such personages as Allen Dulles, J. Edgar Hoover, Dean Acheson, Nikita Khrushchev and Charles de Gaulle. The results are mixed. The author's portrait of Hoover, for example, seems a weak parody of old newsweeklies: "Jut-jawed, beefy, all business...
...very early days of photojournalism, picture takers often trailed behind writers, like baggage carriers in the African bush. "Just look over our heads, Mr. Secretary," a cameraman once called up to Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who was standing with other diplomats on a balcony. "We always do " replied Acheson. Now the roles are more nearly equal "When I hear snooty remarks about photojournalists, I think of one of their greatest achievements-objective presentation of war and its consequences " says Evans. "Their pictures have told many truths, and they have been prepared to risk everything to capture an image...
When Secretary of State Dean Acheson signed the NATO treaty on April 4, 1949, as Vice President Alben Barkley and President Harry Truman watched, Western Europe was on the brink of economic collapse and its hastily demobilized armies were overwhelmingly outnumbered by the Soviets, 210 divisions...
After the Rent Control Board decided several seeks ago to recommend Imparato for the appointment, Acheson Callaghan, chairman of the board sent a letter to the other finalist. Hal Lieberman, saying that he was no longer under consideration for the appointment, Healy said Sunday...