Word: elected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press conference, President-elect Kennedy was mum about which men he would pick for his Cabinet. That would have to wait, he said, until after his Thanksgiving weekend conference with President Eisenhower. The making of dream Cabinets spun on, nevertheless, and expert guesses from Washington centered on these names and posts...
...unfair that Europeans are not allowed to participate in the election of the U.S. President, since their fate in so many ways is in the hands of men chosen by Americans alone," the late Aneurin Bevan once remarked, only half in jest. Last week not only the U.S. but Europe and the rest of the world were debating the qualities and qualifications of President-elect John F. Kennedy...
...Kansas-born Linden Johnson, 46 (no relation to Vice President-elect Lyndon Johnson), served with the U.S. Air Force in India, Burma and China, took his discharge overseas in 1948, and was trapped by the Red Chinese when they captured Shanghai. Released in 1950, Johnson arrived in Hong Kong "so busted he didn't have a bed to sleep in." Becoming the partner of a Chinese friend, Johnson rented factory space, hired a few score workers and began production of high-fashion women's clothes trademarked Dynasty. He now has a large factory in Kowloon, a showroom...
...stock market last week took a look at the President-elect of the U.S. and decided that it was not dismayed by what it saw. Building on a strong tone the week before election, it bounded upward when Kennedy's election was assured. In heavy turnover, stocks broke through the 600 barrier on the Dow-Jones industrial average, ran up a 12.54 gain for the week (to 608.61) in one of the year's best rallies...
...month on all the regulatory agencies. Landis, 61, is a former dean of Harvard Law School, served as a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission and as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board. He is an old friend of the President-elect's father, Joseph P. Kennedy; he succeeded the elder Kennedy as chairman of the SEC in 1935, later worked for him as a special assistant and co-authored a book with him. Now a member of a New York law firm, he has several clients, e.g., the Skiatron pay-TV system...