Word: donalds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will come to about $40 billion-$2 billion above this year's ceiling. The increase will go mostly toward missile development. Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard Russell was notably skeptical about the defense program. New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton Anderson lit into Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Quarles about the cost of interservice rivalries in the missile field. President Eisenhower broke up the argument: "As President, I want you to know that I hate waste, that I hate duplication, that I hate costly interservice rivalries just as much as you do. As a military man, I would...
...Deputy Defense Secretary Donald A. Quarles is becoming Washington's newest scapegoat for its defense troubles. Scientist-Engineer Quarles (Western Electric and Bell Labs) is being blamed for enforcing former Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson's stretch-out and cutback policies with too little protest and too much relish. On Capitol Hill, within a fortnight investigating committees of both House and Senate have been critical of Quarles. In the Pentagon, he is in disfavor with the Navy (for criticizing super carriers), with the Army (for refusing it medium-range missiles), and with the Air Force, although...
Finance Minister Donald Fleming rose in Parliament to outline what he called a bold program to bolster "confidence and prosperity." He cut 100,000 taxpayers from the rolls entirely, gave his most substantial reductions to the 70% of Canadians whose taxable incomes are $2,000 a year or less; e.g., a $5,000-a-year wage earner with two children will save $64. Even though the Tories had earlier poured $150 million into higher old-age pensions and pay boosts for the armed forces and civil service, Fleming still came out in the black (predicted surplus: $80 million). For this...
Michael C. D. Mac Donald '60 wrote the winning letter that will allow his "great companion" Alexander E. B. Aurum to escort starlet April Olrich on her publicity-seeking tour of Boston on Sunday...
...student ticket book in gaining admission to winter athletic contests varies with the location of the event, Donald M. Felt, Assistant Director of Athletics, explained yesterday...