Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presumably, the purpose of unification was to achieve economy and efficiency in the $15 billion-a-year armed services. But one top Administration economist, watching Louis Johnson's roughshod methods, snorted: "He's made two enemies for every dollar he's saved." In nine weeks he had antagonized: the White House (for his tendency to pop off to the press), the Marines (for privately threatening to disband their air arm), the aviation industry (for canceling other contracts in favor of the B-36), the Navy (for a host of bitterly resented indignities...
Louis Johnson's own father had no plantation. He was a grocery clerk in Roanoke who married Katherine Arthur, the colonel's daughter. A man of good family, little money and less education, Marcellus Johnson taught his son the value of an honest dollar, taught him to think and speak for himself, prodded him on with the fierceness of a man who has missed opportunity himself. After his counsel, no one had to teach Louis Arthur Johnson to get out in front and stay there...
Nathan Lichtblau, 45, Manhattan plastics manufacturer who also owns interests in Palm Beach real estate. A perennial assistant to Democratic treasurers since 1936, Lichtblau served as Johnson's deputy, wheedled many a sweat-stained dollar from New York's minority groups when the going was tough. The money he raised paid for the newspaper advertising campaign launched in the campaign's closing days. Says Lichtblau: "I don't want a job or anything. I work purely as an amateur...
...even before AMA and ADA spokesmen detailed their opposition to the multi-billion dollar federal insurance proposal, Administration leaders had removed it from this session's "must" list. Senate majority leader Scott W. Lucas of Illinois said Monday that Congress could not get around to this matter before a hoped-for adjournment on July...
House Republican leaders yesterday made the Administration's multi-billion dollar Housing program the target for a new economy drive. Joseph Martin, of Massachusetts, called a mass meeting of all GOP House member for today, to shape party policy on the bill. The bill goes before the House Rules Committee today...