Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President to violate the budget process was one who had been a strong advocate of it. As Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1913-21), Franklin Roosevelt campaigned in defense of the budget program. In the 1932 campaign he promised to balance the budget. He appointed Lewis Douglas, a conservative Arizona Democrat, as Budget Director.* But Roosevelt's sudden decision to spend the U.S. out of the depression was too much for the budget and Lew Douglas (who stalked out of his job). Finally, Congress just handed Roosevelt some $8 billion and told him to get it spent...
...years ago the San Pedro Valley desert east of Arizona's Santa Catalina Mountains was inhabited by little more than coyotes and cactus. But after Magma Copper Co. proved up the nation's biggest copper deposit beneath the San Pedro Valley floor, the face of the desert changed. Earth movers terraced the rimrock into 1,500 homesites, bulldozers crunched over thousands of acres to carve out winding avenues, parks, shopping centers, a community swimming pool for the new town of San Manuel (TIME COLOR PAGES, July 25). To house Magma's workers. Builder Del Webb put house...
...Midwest newspaper publisher, served briefly as a U.S. Senator from Nebraska. A longtime Stassen supporter, he switched to Eisenhower early in 1952, was a trusted campaign adviser. He acts as the White House liaison man with Government agencies. Pyle, a onetime radio announcer, served two terms as governor of Arizona, was defeated in 1954. He now specializes in federal-state relations, e.g., highways and other projects involving grants...
...Fine Arts to $5,000,000 for New York University. The list includes names as famed as Harvard ($4,510,000), but there are others scarcely anyone has ever heard of. Pennsylvania has the largest number of beneficiaries (57). North Dakota has only one (Jamestown College), and five states-Arizona, Delaware, New Mexico, Nevada and Wyoming-have none...
...between the former heads of the AFL and CIO. Both George Meany and Walter Reuther spoke of the internal amity and potential of the newly-built AFL-CIO. More significantly, both agreed fully on the important subject of labor's future in politics. They attacked the recent statement of Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater, that the AFL-CIO had "no right to endorse a political nominee" and his suggestion that labor be "politically disfranchised." Reuther replied to Goldwater directly: "Our answer to you, Senator," Reuther said, "is not less political action but more political action on the part...