Word: clockings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just after 9 o'clock one morning last week when President Eisenhower entered the Cabinet Room to open the conferences with congressional leaders on his programs for 1958. The 31 conferees got to their feet and gave him a round of applause. After taking his place in his big, straight-backed, black leather Cabinet chair, he explained that he felt well, but was conscious of speaking more slowly after his stroke (no one in the room could detect it) and would therefore talk less than usual. During the rest of the sessions he frequently came and went, leaving Vice...
...respect for a group of self-styled student leaders who spend much time throwing pamphlets under our doors prior to an election, but who become quite inactive after the results have been tabulated. I have had the most unsatisfactory experience of arriving for a council meeting at seven o'clock--the time for which they are called--and having to wait anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half for the meeting to commence. Sometimes the wait will be a full week, since often a quorum cannot be mustered...
...been a long time since grey Gotham saw a labor leader who actually punched a time-clock and went to work in a uniform. Abe Stark, Brooklyn's substitute for mayor, set the familiar monolith into action. The City of New York slapped an injunction on the Motormen, and threatened Theodore Loos with jail...
...clock, Nixon was meeting with Sherman Adams, Attorney General William Rogers, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and White House Aide Jerry Persons around what was to become the week's center of government: an oaken table in the corner of Sherman Adams' office. Adams briefed the group on the facts of the President's illness. Later, the President's doctors entered the room. Asked Nixon: "How is he?" The answer: improved...
Five O'Clock Shadow. Nixon went straight to the White House next morning, sat in on a round of conferences, talked to President Eisenhower for about 15 minutes, slipped out a back door of the White House just in time to get to a luncheon for Mohammed V at Anderson House. Then he rushed to the Capitol, tried to get in a few minutes of undisturbed work in his unnumbered Capitol office. He realized that he had better get shaved for another dinner with Mohammed V (Nixon's heavy blue beard, the delight of cartoonists, was showing five...