Word: eca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Treaty Negotiator: More & more, Dulles took part in postwar diplomacy. But he was quick to see and to warn publicly against the menace of Communism, and became a prime target of Moscow vilification ("warmonger . . . falsifier of facts"). He firmly supported the Administration's European policies (ECA, NATO). After a round of international parleys, giving Republican counsel to Democratic Secretaries of State Byrnes, Marshall and Acheson, he left bipartisan diplomacy for a fling at politics, took an appointment by Governor Thomas Dewey as interim New York Senator (June-December 1949). Running for the seat at the polls, he lost...
Personality: Inconspicuous is the word for George Humphrey. He has made few public speeches, held few press conferences. To avoid the press while on the ECA mission in London, he went up & down the service stairs at Claridge's Hotel, and had his wife screen all visitors and telephone calls. He is sharp of eye and of mind, has a square jaw and a balding head, holds his middle-sized frame ramrod straight. A horseman and hunter, he has fine stables at his 150-acre estate in Lake County, 24 miles out of Cleveland, a stable of brood mares...
...defeated by a fillibuster, Ives proposed a cloture bill. Besides favoring FEPC, he has supported the Anti-Lynching and Anti-Poll tax bills. He pleased New York's large groups of immigrants by campaigning against the Walter-McCarran Immigration Act. Ives is strong on foreign aid, having advocated ECA, MSA, Point Four, and aid to Korea...
...that Kennedy "raises the unsettling possibility of Democratic isolationism." This conclusion is apparently based on: 1) the endorsement of Kennedy by a few isolationists, 2) Kennedy's votes to cut ECA by $350 million and Near East Aid by $35 million. As I have indicated above, a fair minded examination of the endorsement will indicate that they were motivated solely by a deep hatred of Lodge, not by any real agreement with Kennedy's ideas on foreign policy. The Taft forces could scarcely agree with a man like Kennedy who voted against a cut of $150 million in foreign...
...Governor Shiv-3. ECA. ers. 27. To Masterbuilder Peter Kiewit went the second biggest single construction contract ever awarded, the $1.2 billion contract for: 1. Erecting the new uranium plant in southern Ohio...