Word: economisters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unfortunate." The concern over the President's health and spirits had become almost international. London's grave Economist thought that Mr. Truman had been acting like "a fox terrier at bay, rather than a President guiding his nation through a crisis." Washington was shaking its head over Truman's latest tart remarks-directed this time against ex-President Hoover, whom he had invited to join in the appeal for grain for India. As he was leaving, Hoover told Truman: "I'm going to make a radio speech and criticize your foreign policy again." Snapped Truman...
...Colonel Sidney Breese, an Illinois prairie lawyer who later became U.S. Senator. Not till 16 years later did Senator Stephen A. Douglas win a grant of 2,595,600 acres from the Government-the first to any railroad-and persuade Eastern and British financiers (including Gladstone, Stephen Cunard and Economist Richard Cobden) to put up $9,000,000 to construct a 705-mile "Y"-shaped road. It stretched north from Cairo, and forked to East Dubuque and Chicago...
...Beta Kappa economist from the University of Arizona, McCormick joined the fledgling SEC in 1934 as a $1,900 analyst. He moved up in the New Deal hierarchy and set his heart on becoming a commissioner. In 1949, President Truman gave him what he wanted (TIME...
...Collective Security. Above the intemperate outcry that beat upon the Anglo-American rock rose a steadier voice. London's Economist printed a deadpan parody to remind Britons that the principle of collective security for the free world is the same, East or West. Under the future dateline, "Lake Success, January 22, 1952," the Economist reported another, imaginary "ceasefire debate...
...economist called upon the government to beat the strike at any cost and then insist that those men who instituted the "sick" dodge be disciplined. He proposed that an outside committee he formed to determine liability of individuals in disputed cases involving discipline...