Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flying into Claremore from Washington to address the business-suited Blackfeet, Apache, Sioux, Mohawk, Chinook, Zuñi, Cheyenne, Chocktaw, Kickapoo and others was Commissioner Glenn Emmons himself, onetime New Mexico banker and a longtime neighbor and friend of the Navajo. Listing such Indian advances of the recent past as better health care and improved educational facilities, Emmons declared his own "confidence in the native capacities of Indian people-in their ability to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps if they are only given a decent opportunity." But, predictably, Emmons' words of encouragement fell on ruffled feathers...
...greater part of the address was tub-thumping--in a sedate and presidential manner--for the achievements of American science. Then, almost casually, he conceded that the Russians have surpassed us in certain scientific areas...
...also honored a famed scientist last week: Physicist Niels Henrik David Bohr, one of the fathers of atomic fission. President Eisenhower went to Washington's National Academy of Sciences to address the meeting as Bohr received the first Atoms for Peace Award, a gold medal and a $75,000 tax-free "honorarium" put up by the Ford Motor...
...formal address, titled "New Dimensions of American Foreign Policy," the Massachusetts Senator pointed to a failure of Administration leadership in foreign relations. "If initiative falters at the pinnacle," he said, "if Administration action is only reflex action, then foreign policy cannot help but fail...
...challenge was underscored by Vice President Nixon in a major policy speech that went well beyond any previous statement of foreign economic objectives by the Eisenhower Administration. For the black-tied delegates who live by business and were resigned to political oratory, Nixon's brass-tacks address at the main banquet of the conference was a rare surprise. Said Nixon: "The private initiative, the private responsibility and private capital which you represent are the motors of economic progress. The economic growth which you generate is vital to the future of the whole free world. In many nations, the pattern...