Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this year. In the first votes on the issue, a majority upheld the Administration's flexible price support system (TIME, March 19). But then political pressure got too strong, blocs of special interest Senators amended the bill to a condition described by Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken as "tortured and battered, warped and emasculated...
...country's leading intercollegiate court tennis players, Nicholas Ludington and Dwight Davis, number 1 and 2 on the Harvard team, will represent the Crimson at the National Invitation Tournament next week on their vacation trip to Aiken...
Dazzler F. Davis III, who with Ludington will also represent the University at the invitational tournament in Aiken, S.C. this spring, will play at two; Ed Harding, three; Enos Richardson, Jr., five; Randall W. Hackett, six; and Stanislaus Yassukovitch of Warsaw, at seven...
Earthly Instrument. In Aiken, S.C., police looked for the thief who broke into The Church of God, stole twelve folding chairs, a Sunday-school bell, a blackboard, an oil heater and several hymnals, left a note: "To Whom It May Concern: The chairs and items are not taken without just cause, but were taken as a loan and will be returned soon. This is the will...
That same day President Eisenhower wrote Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken, strongly urging the committee to turn down rigid supports. "I should be gravely concerned." said the President, "if the soil bank should be coupled with the restitution of production incentives." Later, White House Press Secretary James Hagerty threw out pointed hints of a presidential veto of a farm bill containing a 90%-parity clause. These moves failed too. After a 14-hour, table-thumping session, the Agriculture Committee backed rigid supports, contradiction and all. The vote was still eight to seven; not a mind had been changed...