Word: asking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Privately, bitterly. Dwight Eisenhower described it as "the most hurtful, the hardest, the most heartbreaking decision" of his 5½ years in office. The decision: to ask for the resignation of hard-bitten little Sherman Adams, Assistant to the President, next to Ike the most powerful man in the Administration, and the only person of whom Dwight Eisenhower had ever said, "I need...
Pain in Maine. With agonizing reluctance, Dwight Eisenhower agreed to let Adams go. But he could not bring himself to ask for the resignation himself. To Meade Alcorn, longtime Adams friend and a fellow Dartmouth graduate, went the unenviable assignment of telling Adams. "You've got to handle it," said Ike. "It's your job, the dirtiest I can give you." Alcorn was delayed only by a frantic last-minute call from Maine's Republican Senator Frederick Payne, who insisted that, because both he and Adams had accepted Goldfine gifts, to impute dishonesty by firing Adams would...
...weather was bringing in bloomers, and though Pauline burned blessed palm leaves in her trailer, the red ones were few and far between. A strip act might have pulled more of a crowd, but Pauline was against it. "We're Catholics, you see. I always tell people that ask where the girl show is that they should save their $1.50 and get their wives to take off their clothes and dance around nude at home." "Aw," answers Fair Secretary Irving Pratt, when the subject comes up, "my wife can't dance...
...agenda for next Monday's meeting of the Student Council. Winans said yesterday that he still plans to attend the meeting and hopes to be allowed to speak. He added that a member of the Council who voted with the majority to withdraw from N.S.A. would probably ask that Winans' views be heard...
Supporters of N.S.A. indicated that the Harvard Liberal Union might be the next organization to come out against the Student Council decision, and that might ask to appear before the Council national and regional officers of NSA to appeal the decision...