Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down with Rapacki. From the floor of the Senate, Dulles got more praise than he has heard in months. New Hampshire's Republican Styles Bridges, bitter critic of Dulles on foreign aid, called him "the most principled and resolved statesman of the West." Montana Democrat Mike Mansfield, who needled Dulles unmercifully during last year's great debate on the Eisenhower Doctrine, now reminded the Kremlin that Dulles is "the Secretary of State of the United States of America." At his weekly press conference the President, questioned on Bulganin's crack about biased foreign ministers, got a laugh...
Trickling Aid. But he believes that France's refusal to come to terms with the Algerians threatens not only his own but the West's whole position in North Africa. He is especially bitter at the recent $655 million loan to France, which he and other North African leaders interpret as financial support for France's Algerian war. He contrasts this aid with the trickle of money received by his own country...
...boss of Italy's state-run oil monopoly (ENI), Enrico Mattei is a bitter foe of private enterprise. In 1957 he bulled through a punitive Italian oil law which put such restrictions on private oil companies that Gulf, the last U.S. firm wildcatting on the peninsula, got out (TIME, Feb. 4, 1957). Five months ago he got a concession in Iran in return for a promise to turn over 75% of oil profits, thus overturning the fifty-fifty pattern now in effect in the Middle East...
Only two days after his suicide, the New York Central's Board Chairman Robert R. Young won a belated victory last week. After a bitter, 2½-year battle between Young and Randolph Phillips, a former associate, the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for one of Young's pet projects: a plan to wipe out $18 million in dividend arrears to preferred stockholders of Young's Alleghany Corp., which has working control of the Central with 973,500 shares of stock. Under the plan, each share of Alleghany's 5½% preferred stock would...
Died. Bertrand H. Snell, 87, longtime (1914-38) hardshell Republican representative from upstate New York, bitter foe of the New Deal as House Minority Leader (1931-38); in Potsdam...