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...Wilbur Hamilton for having, over the years, worked under the table with Philadelphia's dominant Democrats. He found one ally in the Philadelphia Inquirer, which declared the alliance to be "the sole hope of the Republican Party's future in this city." He found another in Dwight Eisenhower, who called a primary-eve press conference in Philadelphia to proclaim that success for the alliance would betoken "victory for the Republican Party in Pennsylvania in November, and a resurgence of G.O.P. strength in the big cities throughout the nation." And then- kerplunk! The alliance had put up 29 candidates...
...There were those who had experienced the strength of his convictions and were a little frightened by him," said Dwight D. Eisenhower to 2,000 guests at services dedicating Princeton's John Foster Dulles Library of Diplomatic History, a two-story granite structure where his personal papers and 40,000 microfilmed state documents are stored. But these very convictions bound Ike and his late Secretary of State in "a trust, a common faith that was never for a second broken." Said he: "To his character, insight and courage I owe a terrific debt. This is a better world because...
Since December, when the Dow-Jones industrial index hit an alltime high of 734.91, it has dropped with a speed that has left many a stomach queasy. Fortnight ago, the index fell even farther than it had in the week following Dwight Eisenhower's 1955 heart attack (see chart...
...Washington to meet with Republican leaders, Dwight Eisenhower complained that Democrats, who were quick to begin congressional investigations during his Administration, were showing "no enthusiasm, no drive and no sense of priority" in poking into the Estes case. Texas' Republican Senator John Tower said he had evidence that the Estes case "may make the Teapot Dome scandal look like a Sunday-school picnic." At that point Kennedy came to the defense of Freeman. The President, said Acting Press Secretary Andrew Hatcher, has "the greatest confidence in Secretary Freeman, and that confidence remains unchanged...
With investor confidence at its lowest ebb since Dwight Eisenhower's heart attack and Big Board stock prices falling $6 billion in one day's trading, Wall Street last week was a cheerless place for anyone trying to peddle large blocks of stock. So discouraging was the atmosphere that long-scheduled sales of stock in two eminently solid corporations (Kellogg Co. and McGraw-Hill Publishing) were abruptly postponed by the investment bankers underwriting them. But the Street's hard-eyed moneymen took a different view when 430,000 shares of General Motors Corp.* went on the block...