Word: chips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Without sounding out congressional sentiment, the President nominated Charles ("Chip") Bohlen, a top-ranking Foreign Service careerist, to be U.S. Ambassador to Moscow. Bad timing and bad staff work on the Bohlen case forced Dulles and Eisenhower to make a major effort to get the Bohlen nomination through (see below...
...President declined to back a proposal made by California's Senator Bill Knowland to name Russia as an aggressor in Korea. When a reporter mentioned Joe McCarthy's opposition to Charles ("Chip") Bohlen as ambassador to Moscow, Eisenhower backed Bohlen's nomination. He went on record against New York's Daniel Reed on a tax cut, and against Senator John W. Bricker's proposed constitutional amendment to limit the treatymaking power...
...competition from within their ranks, only averaged a profit of one to three cents on the dollar. The problem of reducing distribution costs will fall on the coming generation of retailers to solve before the industry can offer high returns to its stockholders, and establish itself as a blue-chip investment field...
Some Senate Republicans, studying Bohlen's record, had doubts. Handsome, Harvard-bred "Chip" Bohlen has made Russia his special field ever since he entered the Foreign Service in 1929. State assigned him to study Russian, sent him to Moscow (along with Kennan) in the '30s. Russia fascinated Bohlen; he even became an expert balalaika player. By 1944 he was chief of Eastern European Affairs (Russia, Poland, the Baltic countries) in Washington. At Teheran and Yalta, Bohlen served as interpreter and aide for Franklin Roosevelt. He sat with F.D.R. and Averell Harriman, facing Stalin, Molotov and their interpreter, Pavlov...
This week Chip Bohlen was down with the measles just when he was scheduled to undergo another round of questioning by the Senate committee. Chances are he will be confirmed, but not without a fight...