Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fulfilled the steelworker's wish by summoning the top men on both sides of the steel strike to the White House for head-banging sessions. "I am getting sick and tired of the apparent impasse," Ike told his press conference, and "so are the American people...
...running out and ripples of unemployment spreading across the land cracked Dwight Eisenhower's already worn-thin patience. "I am not going to permit the economy of the nation to suffer, with its inevitable injuries to all," he told his press conference. "I am not going to permit American workers to remain unnecessarily unemployed...
With Italian-American relations solid and satisfactory, Premier Segni actually had no great and pressing problems to hash over with President Eisenhower (the talks, said the communique, were held "in a spirit of close friendship"); he got a chance before the National Press Club to express his hope that Italy would play a role in a future summit meeting, and to warn the U.S. against reckless disarmament merely because of Khrushchev's "handshake and a few smiles...
...Bonn for a privately organized German-American conference on East West tensions, Acheson fired the most critical shots to date against President Eisenhower for going even so far as to discuss the possibility of a Berlin settlement with Russia's Nikita Khrushchev. Said Acheson: "All the trouble in Berlin is caused by Mr. Khrushchev. The situation there could endure for the indefinite future. But he decided to upset the arrangement a year ago. I would tell Mr. Khrushchev that I would not discuss Berlin. Let's talk about other matters, but there is nothing to talk about there...
...dander up, Moss also fired off a five-page report on the sergeants' case to Air Force headquarters in Wiesbaden, Germany, and in Washington, requesting an investigation "of the highest order." i.e., by Congress. Noted the report flatly: "It is against American law, both military and civilian, to obtain confessions by force, brutality or torture . . ." Then, driving to the heart of the matter, Moss wrote that before the sergeants' arrest, the morale of U.S. forces in Izmir was high, but now "service men here [feel] that they are being let down by their own civilian national representatives...