Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Call from a Cadillac. Next morning, on his way to the Capitol, Johnson called Republican Senate Leader Bill Knowland on the ship-to-shore radiophone in his Cadillac limousine. "Sounds like you're in Texas," said Knowland. Replied Johnson, thinking of the congressional adjournment that would come soon after a civil rights agreement: "That's where I'm going to be-if you agree with what I want to talk about...
...Senate leaders scheduled a meeting in Knowland's office. Johnson made his 30-day, $200 offer. Knowland countered with a 60-day, $300 formula. They parted without agreement-but both knew the bargain was near. Later Lyndon Johnson made a telephone call to the President of the U.S. The gist of his message to Ike: Make another offer, and we can probably get together. The chance soon came; negotiating on the Senate floor, Knowland came down to 45 days, and Lyndon upped the ante...
...pipeline explanation made clear is that cuts in appropriations this year will mean a serious slashing of actual aid to U.S. allies in 1959 and 1960, no matter what is done by Congress next year. It also made the point that when (and if) the time comes to call a halt to foreign aid the pipeline will have to be plugged two or three years in advance of the proposed cutoff date. The experts' explanation seemed to clear the Senate's vision. At week's end it seemed likely that the Appropriations Committee and the Senate itself...
...hurried into a series of hours-long conferences with the Turks, Iranians and the Arab monarchs. In the intricate situation that Henderson was exploring, President Eisenhower had set a diplomatic keynote that had a Loy Hendersonian ring. In taking up public positions on diplomatic items such as whether to call Syrian plotters "men of leftish leanings" or "Communists," said the President, the true diplomat should never commit himself irretrievably. "Always," he said, "give your enemy a line of retreat...
...swimming pool hard by the circular exercise track for her show horses. She made friends everywhere. On regular visits to the beauty parlor downtown she always tipped the operator $2 for a shampoo, $5 for a silver rinse. By entering her blonde, buxom niece, Candace Victoria Laine ("I call her Candy") in Atlanta's smart Westminster School for girls, she automatically became a candidate for the Social Register...