Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pronounced their appraisals to newsmen and gone home to dinner. Just after dark, Ohio's white-haired Republican Senator John W. Bricker walked into the White House and made his way to Ike's second-floor study to meet with the President and an assortment of Administration brass, including Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Attorney General Herbert Brownell and Senate Majority Leader Bill Knowland. The problem: what to do about the Bricker amendment (TIME, July 13), which has turned into a time-bomb threat to both G.O.P. unity and White House-congressional relations...
Confident of victory, the I.L.A. transported thousands of longshoremen to the polls in special buses. Ex-Convict Anthony ("Tough Tony") Anastasia, I.L.A. boss of the Brooklyn piers, brought hundreds of his men to one voting place in a body, with a brass band at their head. In brawls over the election, some men were stabbed and others battered. The NLRB had hardly begun its count before it became obvious that many an I.L.A. longshoreman had voted for the A.F.L...
...Brass glitters in a converted movie theater in the reservation near Paris which is called Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe. Pips, crowns, eagles, laurel wreaths, stars sparkle on an international wardrobe of soldiers' tunics. A luminous map of Europe shines from the screen. The houselights dim, a spotlight focuses on a small, grey-mustached man in the uniform of a high British officer...
...chest arrayed in a rainbow of 38 ribbons, employs certain special equipment to aid his performance: cough drops for generals so bold as to cough while Montgomery is talking, an officer's whistle to bring order out of the babel of English, French, Italian and Turkish, and a brass schoolbell to squelch extra-loud arguments. The men before him are top SHAPE officers, brought together for one of Monty's periodic "Command Post Exercises" for skull practice in the huge, hypothetical war which SHAPE wages in the mind, in the hope that such preparation will forestall real...
...signed up for $29 billion in plant expansion, and has completed about two-thirds of the total. The job has been done so well that Chief Mobilizer Arthur S. Flemming will issue no further tax write-offs for 120 of the 237 defense categories. Among them: blast furnaces, brass mills, metal cans, magnesium, oil wells, paper, rubber, optical glass. Furthermore, Flemming has suspended fast tax write-offs for another 49 categories, including military aircraft, electric power and machine tools, while he takes a second look. The belief is that the U.S. may have enough capacity in those groups...