Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, after getting the fact finders' gloomy report, the President ordered the Justice Department to seek a Taft-Hartley injunction to get the steelworkers back to the mills for the prescribed 80 days...
...through his home town, and the thermometer stood at 41°, the President of the U.S. removed his hat and topcoat, and stepped up to address the spectators: "Whenever I return here," said he, "I invariably sense, in these surroundings, an atmosphere of simplicity and peace ... My mind goes back nostalgically to the conditions I knew as a boy. We did not then know the term 'world tension'; life was peaceful, serene and happy...
Roses. Still savoring the memories, the President flew back to Washington from Abilene at the end of his overnight stay. At the White House, the U.S. Army Chorus surprised him with a medley of tunes: Happy Birthday, The Yellow Rose of Texas, and one of his favorites, Army Blue ("We'll bid farewell to Kaydet Gray, and don the Army Blue . . .")-The White House employees had filled a huge vase with 69 roses, and the executive staff presented him with four matched bridge chairs for the Gettysburg farm. The famed Eisenhower grin showed that the President felt quite...
...Back-Room Planning. Rockefeller men freely concede that the odds against him are imposing, for Nixon's popularity has soared since his trip to Russia.* If Nixon maintains his appeal, Rockefeller, who worked amicably with the Vice President as an Eisenhower appointee, plans to bow gracefully aside...
...grand climax to the most massive naval campaign ever, a campaign that led through Coral Sea, where the drive toward Australia was thrown back; through Midway, where the threat to Hawaii was decisively broken; through the "Marianas Turkey Shoot" (the Battle of the Philippine Sea), which broke the back of Japanese naval airpower. The relentless surge had driven the Japanese back to a final line of defense that included the home islands themselves, and hinged on the Philippines...