Word: economist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...street and in the pub still seems to like Ike and wonder who this chap Stevenson is. But the Laborite Daily Herald says: "Ike has become a pitiful pawn." The thoughtful Economist, which backed Eisenhower a few months ago, last week worried about Ike's association with Taft, wondered whether "Eisenhower, the politician, is a different man from Eisenhower, the architect of a united victory." But, added the Economist, "may the best...
...moment, the Bevanite landslide was halted, but ambitious Aneurin Bevan's irresponsible larking might still cost the party its good reputation. "In any alliance that is becoming uneasy, from the military to the matrimonial," said the Economist, "it is always the partner who values unity most highly who has to make the most concession." Aneurin Bevan's new power, the Economist continued, might well mean a Labor foreign policy "shot with ideological distrust of Britain's allies and with starry-eyed illusion about its enemies...
Career: Veteran career diplomat and topflight economist; joined Foreign Office in 1928, has served since in the U.S., Scandinavia, Africa, the U.N. and as delegate to numberless international conferences as expert on economics and North American affairs; Britain's Deputy Under Secretary of State since 1948; chairman of ten-man council on British atomic policy; Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George since 1949; accompanied both Attlee and Churchill on their recent trips to Washington, where he himself has served a total of five years...
...verbal barrage Moley said, "We find an affinity for a whole school of political sophisticates. They screen their advocacy of a super-government in a mass of pleasant verbiage. Archie MacLeish is the poet laureate of this school; Leon Henderson, its economist; Arthur Schlesinger Jr., its historian; and Stevenson, its statesman...
...careful directions ("No marble, no conventional phrase"), it is engraved on his simple tomb in the churchyard of Drumcliff, in the poet's native Sligo. But ever since his death in 1939, his admirers have refused to cast a cold eye on his memory. Last month an American economist, John J. Kelly, remarked at a Dublin dinner party that he would subscribe $1,400 towards a Yeats memorial if Ireland would put up an equal sum. Ireland's men of letters soon raised the money, but the question of what shape the memorial should lake started a literary...