Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave Chip Bohlen his unqualified support (see below). He again gently reproved the authors of the Bricker treaty limiting amendment to the Constitution: while he is sure the Senators are patriotically well-intentioned, the President said, the amendment would certainly restrict the President's flexibility in the conduct of foreign relations. The Korean ammunition supply, he said, is equal to the existing military situation there. And he gave the Truman Administration one of his rare slaps, deplored the $709,000 terminal leave collected by the Fair Deal's top brass; he would never allow his own officials...
With that testimony from the Republicans' majority leader and the Democrats' 1952 candidate for Vice President, the security case against Chip Bohlen collapsed. As suddenly as they had picked up the security charge in the midst of the Bohlen battle, the anti-Bohlen forces dropped it. They retreated to their original (and less marshy) ground: Bohlen should not be confirmed because he was a key man in the Roosevelt-Truman-Acheson foreign policy, and, in the Republican year, 1953, was still defending the Yalta agreement...
...Senators strode into a State Department office, seated themselves at a table and began poring over a 30-page document. Ohio's Robert A. Taft and Alabama's John Sparkman had come over from Capitol Hill to go through the FBI report on Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen, nominee for Ambassador to Russia. Both Taft and Sparkman were already satisfied with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' judgment that Bohlen was a good security risk, but the hue & cry raised by Bohlen's opponents about reports of his past association with "dissolute persons" (TIME, March...
Tread & Needle. That brought California's Senator William Knowland to his feet. Foster Dulles had sent him a letter signed by Grew, Armour and Gibson, recommending an accompanying list of prospects for diplomatic posts. On the list: Chip Bohlen, as Ambassador to Moscow. The letter and memo were classified documents and could not be read on the floor, said Knowland, but they clearly recommended Bohlen...
...hearsay reports that Bohlen had associated in the past with some "dissolute persons." One day last week, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles spent three hours before the Foreign Relations Committee discussing the new charges in secret. After the long session ended, a reassured committee resoundingly (15-0) approved "Chip" Bohlen...