Word: ever
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attacked that costly, archaic contraption, the federal farm-price-support program. Said Ike in his farm message to Congress: ¶ It "has not worked." Most of the money goes to larger producers who need no help. "It does little to help the farmers in greatest difficulty." ¶ It breeds ever bigger surpluses, because high support prices attract capital to supported crops, and soaring farm technology keeps defeating crop-control measures. ¶ It is "excessively expensive." Farm-stabilization costs are running to $5.4 billion this year, and surpluses have piled up so high that the cost of storing the stuff will...
...oldest man ever to serve in the U.S. Congress, Rhode Island's Democratic Senator Theodore Francis Green had known for months that the chairmanship of the prestigious Foreign Relations Committee was too much for him. Last December Green underwent surgery for cataracts; his eyesight has not really returned. Last fortnight he returned from a Foreign Relations Committee hearing, complained that he had been unable to hear the testimony; his staff discovered that he simply had not had his hearing aid turned up far enough. Last week Green's home-town Providence Journal sorrowfully made an editorial suggestion...
...said Dulles, the U.S. needs more than ever before to advance the rule of law as a "shield and protector of those who rely on good faith in international engagements." Specifically, the U.S.-and the other members of the U.N.-need to: ¶ Condemn more and tolerate less the anticommunity actions of the Communist bloc. "Those nations should be made to feel the weight of public disapproval . . . Unless the U.N. becomes, for all, an instrumentality of peace through justice and law, then some alternative must be found." ¶ Intensify within the U.N. General Assembly the quest-"in my view, sometimes...
Senator Carlos Lleras Restrepo shot 63 questions at Rojas in 60 minutes. Rojas made stumbling replies. The general was unable to show that a company he formed to carry out his moneymaking deals while President had ever paid taxes or kept books. When asked how come his personal fortune grew so fast when he was President, Rojas replied: "Gifts from Colombians and foreigners...
...wants something from them, Cushing can display a formidable charm, and a determination that is awesome. But Alec Cushing had a certain rudeness about him from the beginning. "He was a beautiful baby," recalls his older sister, Mrs. Lily Cushing Boyd. "He was also the most determined boy you ever saw. Whenever people came up and went itchykoo at him, Alexander would lie back and bark like a sea lion." He was born to wealth. His grandfather, Robert M. Cushing, was an old Boston tea merchant. His father was a talented painter, died when Alec was four. Young Cushing grew...