Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stomped in out of a snowstorm to appear before the House Ways and Means Committee. He was there as the Administration's chief spokesman for what may be 1958's most bitterly fought legislative proposal: the bill to promote freer trade by 1) extending the reciprocal trade act for five years instead of the usual three, and 2) enlarging the President's tariff-trimming powers...
Saving Vote. If Weeks's testimony marked a striking shift in personal outlook, it also marked a shift in Administration strategy. Back in 1955, when the Trade Agreements Act of 1934 came up for renewal, the State Department spearheaded the Administration case, arguing for reciprocal trade in terms of free-world strength and solidarity. On the floor of the House that year, a single vote saved the reciprocal trade bill from butchery by amendment. Facing an even rougher fight this year because of recession at home and keener import competition from abroad, Eisenhower & Co. decided to switch the task...
What T.R. now did was the greatest single act of his presidency. He sent the U.S. fleet around the world. T.R. did it to show Japan, and Europe as well, that the U.S. was not only a world power but a great world power, able to defend its interests and deter war anywhere. He did it to show the people of the U.S. that from then on out the U.S. was part of the world. Around a narrowing world fraught with fear of a world war the 16 U.S. battleships steamed, all painted gleaming white, making good-will stopovers...
...obscured the fact that the U.S. has long since withdrawn all but two divisions. As a practical matter, the 350,000 Chinese troops in North Korea are a drain on its shaky economy, and back in China they can flesh out the none too plentiful labor force, still act as reserves ready to pour back across the border if necessary. Weapons kept by the U.S. in South Korea capable of delivering nuclear warheads rankle Peking and Moscow, and while Chou was ranting last week, Russia chimed in with a proposal to establish a "nuclear-free zone" prohibiting atomic weapons...
Just when the battle seemed lost, Brigitte found some friends in Pennsylvania's State Supreme Court, which two years ago canceled a state movie censorship act, but left standing the anti-obscenity film statute. The court slapped D.A. Blanc with an injunction requiring him to let the movie be shown until a Philadelphia common pleas court decides this week if it is bad enough to be banned for good. Back in business at week's end, Brigitte was drawing more oglers than ever...