Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little more than an hour the President was at Dulles' bedside. For 25 minutes they talked. Ike told Dulles that he was counting on him to get back to work. Dulles gave the President the book at his bedside-What We Must Know About Communism-urged him to read it. At conversation's end the President tucked the book under his arm, stopped on his way out of the hospital to make a short statement: "... I express the thoughts and prayers of all of us that the results of his operation and the further course of treatment will...
UNDER Secretary of State Christian Herter, who had slipped away only eight days before on a long-planned vacation at his South Carolina plantation, flew back to Washington last weekend on a MATS Convair bearing the blue seal of his office. Chris Herter, his 6-ft. 5-in. body bent by arthritis (he has recently been using a wheelchair and aluminum half crutches to get around), walked down the steps unaided to be met by Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs C. Douglas Dillon, his next in command during the period of Foster Dulles' incapacity...
...Back to the Desk. Polished, pleasant, hawk-eyed Chris Herter, says a close friend, has never had "that indefinable something that makes dogs and children follow him down the street"-but his recognized abilities were enough to get him narrowly elected Governor of Massachusetts in 1952, and his skilled, if unspectacular, performance was enough to get him overwhelmingly re-elected in 1954. In 1956, his gubernatorial career about to end, Herter became Harold Stassen's unwilling selection for Vice President against Richard Nixon (Herter publicly rebuffed Stassen, himself made a nominating speech for Nixon). Soon after the 1956 elections...
Beer Bottles? All week long, Democratic speakers had paid homage to REA's power. Massachusetts' Senator Jack Kennedy, a strong presidential hopeful, promised that the Democratic Congress would "not go back on our word" by raising REA interest rates. Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson sounded a call to man the barricades against any Administration attempt to raise the interest rates: "We will fight them with beer bottles. The time has arrived when you must ask no quarter and we must give none.'' House Speaker Sam Rayburn, co-author of the 1935 act that created REA, asked...
...Georgia's rural woolhats, led by U.S. Senator Richard Brevard Russell of Winder (pop. 4,604), marched on Atlanta (pop. 510,000) to try to scare city moderates out of complying with a certain-to-come federal integration order. "I want to invite the people of Atlanta back into Georgia!" cried pone-shaped Politician-Publisher Roy V. Harris. "Our greatest battle is against the quislings...