Word: burgesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Open-Door Policy. To make the presentation on military manpower problems (see below), Assistant Defense Secretary Carter L. Burgess held the floor. A Democrat leaned over to the President to ask who Burgess was. Quipped Ike: "He's one of those 'damned Democrats for Eisenhower' from South Carolina." Despite this jolting news, the Democrats agreed to go along in principle with Ike's manpower proposals. In his turn, Harold Stassen dragged out a set of charts to disprove the idea in some Senators' minds that his program approached the order of magnitude of a "Marshall...
...Dogtrotting regularly for the morning train and brisk walking to appointments keep the heart and lungs in trim for emergencies, reported Philadelphia's Dr. Burgess L. Gordon. "It's the habit of taking things easy most of the time and then placing a sudden strain on the body in an emergency that is dangerous...
...greater influence on American higher education in the nineteenth century than any other person. That was high praise, since among White's contemporaries were Charles W. Eliot who began his reform of Harvard in 1869, Daniel G. Gilman, who helped to found Johns Hopkins in 1875, and John W. Burgess, who began to introduce radical changes in the curriculum at Columbia a few years later...
...Editorialized the normally Anglophile New York Times: "Dr. John, who served British intelligence during the war . . . thus takes his place at the side of Fuchs, May, Pontecorvo, MacLean, Burgess and other traitors who evaded the British security system. It is perhaps time to suggest a little more cooperation between the British and American intelligence services in matters that could mean life or death...
...finds Farmer Burgess to be a fine, strapping man, but just a low-class fellow for all that; yet Leo starts asking questions about Ted because any man who has a mysterious bond with Marian is worth investigating. But he gets only short, veiled answers. "Mr. Burgess is a bit of a lad," says the coachman. "He's a bit of a lady-killer, but there's no harm in that," says Lord Trimingham casually...