Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ARTHUR H. WESTING New Haven, Conn...
...surprised last week at the sight of a member of the Eisenhower Cabinet seeking out late-staying Congressmen to whom he could pour out his budget woes. What, asked the reporter, was the Cabinet member doing at that hour? "You know what I'm doing," snapped Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield. "I'm trying to repair George Humphrey's wreckage...
...Last Word (Sun. 3:30 p.m., CBS). Novelist Laura Z. Hobson and Historian Arthur Schlesinger join the panel on the English language...
While Congress was talking its budget-cutting best, Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield rode up to Capitol Hill last week like Wyatt Earp moving in on an edgy town board. Before an economy-tortured House Appropriations .Subcommittee Summerfield sat down and made his peremptory demand: a deficiency appropriation of $47 million to carry on until June 30, the end of the fiscal year. Bluntly he threatened to "drastically curtail" post office services unless the committee gave him what he wanted; he invited Congressmen to say "whatever services you would have the American people be denied...
...river entrance to the Pentagon, Four-Star General Curtis LeMay, 50, hard-boiled boss of the Air Force's Strategic Air Command, rolled his ever-present panatela around in his mouth, fingered the new mustache he had grown in his recent big-game hunt in Africa with Arthur Godfrey, and mulled the reasons for this sudden command appearance before the top Pentagon brass. The scuttlebutt had told: he was to be offered the job of Air Force Vice Chief of Staff. Curt LeMay took three days to think over the idea. Last week he reappeared at the Pentagon -this...