Word: buts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Of course, as all the world knows, at times and in some respects, we have fallen short of the high ideals held up for us by our founding fathers. But one of the glories of America is that she never ceases her striving toward this shining goal.
This kind of defense is costly and burdensome, as indeed are many other essential federal programs. We must, then, for our security and our prosperity, keep our economy vigorous and expanding. We can keep it so, but only if we meet wisely and responsibly our economic problems. To mention a...
After that stern admonition, Ike affirmed his faith in free collective bargaining by asking labor and management to negotiate "around-the-clock" to avert a new steel crisis when the strike-halting Taft-Hartley injunction expires Jan. 26. "What great news it would be if, during the course of this...
The contrast between Secretary Gates and outgoing Secretary McElroy could hardly be greater. McElroy (who goes back this week, with no regrets, to a new Procter & Gamble job as board chairman at upwards of $285,000) is an attractive, extraverted salesman-impatient with details or lengthy briefings, a man who...
Tom Gates, in sharp contrast, is a stiff-upper-lip Philadelphia investment banker and World War II Navyman (four stripes in Air Intelligence). He went to Washington as Under Secretary to Navy Secretary Robert Anderson (now Secretary of the Treasury), inevitably inherited the top Navy job in 1957. He ran...