Word: career
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advice and consent of the Senate " In the case of Cabinet members, the Senate has almost always confirmed nominations. It may yet remain for Lewis L. Strauss, up for Secretary of Commerce, to be the first Cabinet nominee turned down for reasons of personality alone. In a long career of public service, Strauss has distinguished himself. But he has a thorny, give-and-ask-no-quarter personality; he also has an implacable opponent of great talent and resolve. The result is Washington's highest drama - played out on the Senate floor, in cloakrooms, at black-tie dinners...
...Clint Anderson report on the progress of his battle against the confirmation as U.S. Secretary of Commerce of one of the nation's ablest and thorniest public figures: Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 63, longtime member and chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and a man whose governmental career Anderson has sworn to end. Despite Anderson's optimism, the outcome of that battle was still in cliff-hanging doubt, with the decision likely to swing on two or three Senate votes-and with the U.S. already the loser in one of the biggest, bitterest, and in many ways most unseemly...
Invited to dinner early in his Kuhn, Loeb career by Partner Jerome Hanauer, Strauss offered to help Hanauer's pig-tailed daughter Alice with her Latin homework. He made some mistakes in translation, as Alice found out in class next day, but she apparently forgave him. In 1923, when she was 18 and he was 27, they were married. The Strausses have one son, Lewis H., 35, a Baltimore physicist, and three grandchildren...
...remarkable talent for giving offense. Said the New Republic last week in an editorial on Strauss: "One is reminded of Shaw's comment that St. Joan infuriated people not by being right but by the manner of her being right." In his long public-service career, Strauss has fought his way to triumph after triumph. He has been proved right time after time. But in each instance he has, by his very skill and aggression in urging his views and in defending himself, left behind him enemies dedicated to his downfall. And of all these enemies, none is more...
...implacable enemy," says embattled Lewis Strauss, "is a good Senator." The Senator's career...