Word: firm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hardest leadership tests ever imposed on a U.S. President. In the midst of the 1958 economic recession, Democrats were shouting for the Administration to start priming the fiscal pumps. Some of the President's closest advisers urged him to take spending measures against depression. Ike stood firm, refusing to panic under tremendous pressure (TIME, March 24, 1958 et seq.), and the economy dramatically righted itself as he had insisted it would...
...override, came on the $1,375,000,000 housing bill, which Ike had vetoed in his battle to keep the nation's budget in balance. The issue was forced by the Senate's Democratic liberals, desperately anxious to get out from under the President's firm fiscal thumb. In insisting on an attempt to override, they exposed themselves and their party to a needless and humiliating defeat...
...nominal suzerainty over inner Tibet but not the right to interfere with its internal administration, and delineated a frontier between India and Tibet, following the spur of the Himalayas through wild and remote country. Declared Nehru last week: "So far as we are concerned the McMahon line is the firm frontier, firm by treaty, firm by right, firm by usage and firm by geography." Therefore he could not understand what Chou En-lai meant by referring to China's "undefined frontiers with its southern neighbors...
...five of its 32 waitresses (who must be presentable and well educated to get Hilton jobs) have left to be married, making the Hilton such a popular employer that a large percentage of girls are among the 40,000 people who have applied there for jobs. A Cairo transit firm hired 25 lady conductors, responding to President Gamal Abdel Nasser's program for the economic emancipation of Egyptian women. Within six months most of the girl conductors had married either drivers or passengers. Today only three are left on the job. Though Cairo's Moslem women have...
Japanese trade interests in the U.S. will be represented by Thomas E. Dewey's law firm under a one-year $100,000 contract signed last week. Dewey is expected to help fight moves to curb Japanese imports...