Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radar station had fed the gossip of bored Americans in the occupied city. There were those who remembered a civilian engineer hired to supervise the job; he had quit in disgust because the blueprints seemed so crazy. "Why build a cellar big enough to drive through with a dump truck?" he asked, and was told to mind his own business. Others recalled seeing friends whom they knew to be engineers suddenly appearing at the station wearing the insignia of the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Why? An amused shrug was the only answer questioners ever got-but last week the Russians...
...that the effort to dump Nixon from the Republican ticket has run into strong, public opposition from President Eisenhower himself, the All-American Boy of the Republican Party is apparently destined for the number two spot once again--assuming that both Nixon and the convention nod approval. If liberal Republicans remain silent between now and August, Nixon seems to have a clear path to the nomination...
...will be next week, and for weeks to come, Topic A of U.S. politics was the future of Richard Nixon. "Mr. President," a reporter put the first question at Eisenhower's press conference, "there have been some published reports that some of your advisers are urging you to dump Vice President Nixon from the Republican ticket this year, and that, secondly, you yourself have suggested to Mr. Nixon that he consider standing aside this time and, perhaps, take a Cabinet post. Can you tell us whether there is anything to those reports...
...Effrontery." As he has done all along, the President spoke out strongly on behalf of his Vice President. "I will promise you this much," he said, "that if anyone ever has the effrontery to come in and urge me to dump somebody that I respect as I do Vice President Nixon, there will be more commotion around my offices than you have noticed yet. Second, I have not presumed to tell the Vice President what he should do with his own future. I have told him this: I be lieve he should be one of the comers in the Republican...
...concentrated attack by which the Democrats have sought to tear down Nixon. He also knows that a strong Republican faction would prefer another candidate. To thrust the crown upon Nixon at this time, therefore, would simply be to increase the force of that assault. For the President to dump Nixon at San Francisco, however, would be to acknowledge that his high praise did not necessarily convey unswerving support; to confess, in effect, that he had made a serious mistake, or to imply that his desire for re-election might lead him to place expediency above right...