Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stevenson has offered imaginative new programs in health insurance and social security, as well as education, while Eisenhower has been content with less in these lines than even Fortune Magazine. Further, in public power, he has repudiated a principle established by Roosevelt's TVA--the principle that a comprehensive federal power program stimulates much more private enterprise through low rates than it kills through government administration. By attempting to deny this principle through a "partnership" plan which combines private inefficiency with government expenditure, the President has thrown national thinking on this subject back some twenty years...
...this new colleague a jack of many trades. He owns 4,000 fertile acres of farmland, chairmans booming young insurance and investment companies, has built a $40,000-a-year law practice, dabbles profitably in real estate, markets Georgia-cured hams. He edits a weekly newspaper that ranges in content from economic evaluations of the changing Georgia scene to muck-slinging racist propaganda in campaign seasons. Recently he became an author: his You and Segregation is being snatched up by the Citizens' Councils of the South...
...than any geographical area of the United States. The average Southerner considers himself somehow different and feels a natural reluctance to force himself into a non-Southern atmosphere. Consequently, while the Southerner may not depreciate the value of going to schools outside his region, he is likely to be content with attending "The Princeton of the South"--Vanderbilt University--or a similar school with a good reputation and Eastern educational influences. This tendency is heightened by the fact that so much effort has been placed upon developing the South as a region...
...right; some of you feel strongly to the contrary, but what is more important is that we accept . . . that decision as law-abiding citizens." ¶Proposed increased federal funds for school construction, more and better-paid teachers, and college scholarships-all without more federal "control over the content of the educational process." ¶Charged, without naming him, that the President's brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, had "assumed special, if informal, responsibility" for U.S. relations with Argentina to the benefit of ex-Dictator Juan Perón, who pocketed $100 million in U.S. loans to Argentina...
...particularly when he discussed his concept of a "New America," Stevenson showed flashes of his old eloquent self ("Leadership in a democracy can be no more than the capturing of a people's power to realize their own best ideals"). But most of the time, he seemed more content to let the sparks shower merrily and fall where they might...