Word: endorsee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After hearing from Jessie, reporters for the first time in years began dialing Cabinet wives, asking if they would like to see their husbands resign. Pamela Humphrey (Treasury) and Isabelle Mitchell (Labor) were out of town. Janet Dulles (State), Jane Weeks (Commerce) and Mary Folsom (Health, Education and Welfare) declined...
Poles were disappointed that Gomulka had agreed to recognize the "workers" regime in Hungary, though Gomulka had refused to endorse Kadar by name. Instead of getting the Red army out of Poland, he had entered into a new military agreement by which six Soviet divisions would remain in Poland, although...
¶ A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who first opposed the federation's taking an election stand, then supported an executive council decision to endorse the Democrats, backed away again in a message to 15 million union members: "Naturally, I ... hope you will vote for Stevenson and Kefauver, but the...
Contrasted to the Eisenhower concept that a President should remove himself from the political arena is the kind of rough-and-tumble aggressiveness that was most effective in Franklin Roosevelt and most provoking in Harry Truman. In depression and in war, Roosevelt constantly risked unpopularity by stepping into controversies in...
¶Urged members to set an example of interracial brotherhood in their daily lives, but declined, by a vote of 340 to 159, to endorse a proposal hailing the Supreme Court's ban on segregation in the public schools as being "in harmony with Christian convictions," because the church...