Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More Drastic Talk. Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus was not one of these. He had drawn the battle lines. President Eisenhower had patiently tried to avoid direct conflict, but when forced to the issue, he had acted quickly and decisively (see below). Now, at week's end Faubus -like Joe McCarthy before him-was trying to regain the initiative by even more drastic talk, slandering his political opponents, and musing about the possibility of calling a special session of the Arkansas legislature to abolish the public school system. And the President of the U.S. would return to Washington this...
...fight against inflation, said the President, governments must curb their own demands upon the economy - "a difficult task in this day of heavy defense outlays" - and follow credit policies that promote stability. But government measures alone cannot win the fight unless nations avoid "the costly error of overpaying ourselves for the work we do." Payments for "productive efforts of all sorts," i.e., profits as well as wages, should rise in step with productivity, not outrun it. Here Ike echoed a theme he had voiced in his State of the Union address last January: labor and business, as well as government...
...North Carolina proposed that Southern Governors Conference suggest to President Eisenhower that maintenance of law and order in Arkansas is primary responsibility of Gov. Orval Faubus. Gov. Frank clement of Tennessee proposed a committee of seven governors meet with Eisenhower to seek solution to integration problems which would avoid use of federal troops...
...highly unlikely that Americans will pour into Iron Curtain nations where they have not been invited, there seems little rationale for the Secretary's fears. Assuming that those travelers who do waive their protection are responsible enough to avoid starting trouble, there can be no reason for punishing them on their return home...
...National Conference party, making charges of governmental corruption and repression in Indian Kashmir. If they continued to howl, their charges might carry all the way to the U.N., even provoke questions as to why Bakshi had knowingly tolerated such proCommunists in his government for so long. Determined to avoid this if possible, Nehru chatted soothingly with the rebels, quietly advised Bakshi to treat them as old friends...