Word: calder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press, or be discreet in front of it, let it be known that he had decided on the successor to retiring Army Secretary Kenneth Royall -though it is the President's prerogative to name his own official family. Johnson's choice was 58-year-old Curtis Ernest Calder, the $75,000-a-year board chairman of Manhattan's Electric Bond and Share Co. As soon as Calder could tidy up his affairs, probably within 60 days, he would move into the Pentagon. So said Louis Johnson...
That wasn't the way Calder understood it. As soon as the news hit the wires, Calder cracked back: "I have not accepted the secretaryship of the Army today or accepted it for 60 days from now." In the ensuing confusion, Louis Johnson kept mum while Harry Truman loyally tried to straighten things out by hoping that Calder could still be persuaded. If not, the loud publicity would make it even harder to find another candidate. One trouble was that though the vacant Army and Navy secretaryships were still Cabinet posts in all but name, they were increasingly becoming...
Behind the invasion most experienced observers still saw the face of wily Tacho Somoza. He had decided, they concluded, to do something about the Costa Rican exiles who had been training on Nicaraguan soil for a comeback. By allowing their leader, ex-President Rafael CalderÓn Guardia, to attack, Tacho set up several interesting possibilities. If discontent with the Figueres regime had reached the boiling point, an overnight coup might bring Calderon to power. If the attempt failed, Tacho could rid himself of his embarrassing guests. If the Caribbean Legion intervened to help Figueres, Tacho would have a chance...
There is also a sequence by Mareel Duchamp derived from his eubistic painting "Nude Descending the Stairway," and Alexander Calder and Dave Diamond have a hand in other portions. The dream I found most interesting, if only for its simple, washroom symbolism, was Mr. Richter's "Nareissus" though to identify oneself with any particular dream is dangerously revealing, I suppose...
...your article on the 1948-49 automobiles [TIME, Oct. 4]: Obviously, the designers from every company got together one night, had too many drinks and [decided] to make all cars alike-too wide, too stub-nosed and boxy-looking-and thus enjoy a designer's holiday . . . CALDER B. VAUGHAN Washington...