Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PRESIDENT-ELECT Hopes & Hoppes
...previously unnamed plaything, the toy grasshopper, which has springy metal legs and a rubber suction cup on its belly, was promptly christened "the Eisen-hopper" by fascinated newsmen. Introduced into Ike's offices by his old friend, Toy Manufacturer Louis Marx, the Eisenhopper caught the President-elect's fancy. Talking business with serious-faced guests, Ike would casually press a hopper on to his desk, and roar with delight when, seconds later, it startled the visitors by springing ceilingward...
Apart from the antics of the Eisenhopper, the first half of Christmas week offered the President-elect little opportunity for relaxation. Following the dictates of courtesy and good politics, Ike sought out the nation's last Republican President, Herbert Hoover, and spent an hour and a half lunching with him at John Foster Dulles' home, where the Eisenhower MacArthur meeting had taken place a week before. To reporters and photographers, the two Republican chieftains, both in blue cashmere overcoats and wearing nearly identical light blue ties, were carefully unspecific about their conversation...
...only gone down the line politically for his benefactor, but has done an outstanding job as bursar of California's billion-dollar budget. Last week, however, the governor switched his protege to a new track, appointed him to the U.S. Senate to succeed Vice President-elect Richard Nixon...
...arguing bitterly over the question whether Dwight Eisenhower had enough experience to be President, and whether he was decisive enough. By last week, it seemed hard to believe that the argument had ever really taken place. Eisenhower had taken com mand as quickly and firmly as any Presi dent-elect in U.S. history...