Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conflict of interests" is one of Washington's knottiest problems. From World War I, when Senator Kenneth McKellar probed Bernard Baruch's dollar-a-year men, to the Korean war, when Congressman Emanuel Celler investigated "Electric Charlie" Wilson's WOCs, the relations of the legislators to businessmen in Government has been marked by suspicion. Through five emergencies, including two world wars, some legislators have been unable to satisfy themselves completely that the Government, in taking advantage of the skills of businessmen, was not being short-changed somehow...
...Administrative Leader. One test of U.S. strength is the condition of its Government, faced as are all contemporary governments with the conflict between special skills, special interests and special viewpoints on one hand and the national interest on the other. Eisenhower, with his long experience of the military staff system, is familiar with this fundamental problem. He respects his department heads far more than Franklin Roosevelt respected his, but he stands less in awe of his military and diplomatic chiefs than did Harry Truman. Naturally, this is especially true in Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson's field, where Eisen...
...domestic economic matters, Eisen hower is much more dependent on his advisers. He has great confidence in Economic Adviser Arthur Burns and Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey. He gave to Humphrey a general directive to hold down Government expenditures. Obeying it, Humphrey often finds him self in conflict with other department heads; Washington gagsters call Humphrey "Secretary of Everything." But Humphrey's function, long missed in Washington, is the essential one of imposing outside limits on Government activities, limits which force operating depart ments to relearn that economy is the parent of effectiveness. Humphrey and the President have...
Social Document. Writes Critic Bazin: "The Corneilleian simplicity of the western scenario has often been parodied. It is true that it is easy to detect an analogy to Le Cid: same conflict between love and duty, same knightly deeds, resulting in the virgin consenting to forget the insults to her family . . . But this comparison is ambiguous: to mock westerns by evoking Corneille is also to point out their grandeur, a grandeur perhaps close to puerility, even as childhood is close to poetry . . . Everyone, children and simple men, recognizes the naive grandeur of western movies. Epic and tragic heroes are universal...
...their associates. Former Communist Granville Hicks '23 has said that he was convinced that Furry left the party in 1939, at approximately the time Hicks dropped his own party membership. Yet Furry actually remained a Communist until 1947. Acquiesence with the demands of an investigating committee need not, then, conflict with "traditional American ethical standards" on informing...