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Aboard the Navy's 888-ft. aircraft carrier Bennington, Commander Michael Hanley, off-duty air group commander, slept peacefully through the usual clamor of the morning launching of jet fighters...
...insuring mortgages. Not only has FHA helped millions build and repair their homes; it has not cost taxpayers a cent, even made $91.9 million last year. President Eisenhower asked Congress to expand and strengthen the housing program. But when scandal suddenly broke out in the FHA last April, congressional clamor arose for safeguards. Now, under the guise of cleaning up FHA, Congress is falling short on Eisenhower's housing program...
...encouragement from others. But it is of the greatest importance that he know--have unequivocal assurance--that whatever he finds and reports . . . will not penalize him as a man. If he sees men around him dismissed from their positions for less than the most serious reasons, because of popular clamor, or on anything less than the most solid proof, it would not be surprising if he were then to shirk his own basic responsibility in the field of learning to press...
...only a faith but a fact. The faith spread like quicksilver-to Latin America, where Bolivar ousted the Spaniards, and the Portuguese beat a retreat; to Europe itself, where it mingled with British liberalism and the surge of the French Revolution (1789) to stir Poles, Czechs and Hungarians into clamor for nationhood. Imperialism in Europe faltered; it went down to defeat in the carnage of major...
...Clamor for Yoshida's resignation increased. His left-wing opposition in the Diet, though divided within itself, is bigger than his own coalition. The left-wingers were hot & heavy after Yoshida for his pro-Western policy, and used the scandals as their club. Haughtily refusing either to discuss the scandals or to give police the help they needed to clean out corruption, Yoshida stayed away from the Diet, calmly warmed his feet over a charcoal brazier at his private villa in Oiso, 42 miles from Tokyo. His own Liberal and Progressive supporters realized that if they tried to desert...