Word: firm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of accepting the scholarship offered to him by the University of Virginia, Strauss set out to sell shoes for the family firm, headed southward with volumes of Latin poetry-Virgil, Ovid, Horace-packed along with his samples. After four years in the shoe business, he took a train to Washington in 1917 and offered his services as a volunteer worker for Herbert Hoover's Belgian Relief Commission. Drawing no pay (he skimped along on his savings), Strauss worked for Hoover for 2½ years, first as a sort of office boy and then as secretary ("My jewel...
Into the Money. After war's end, the Wall Street investment firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. astonished Lewis Strauss by offering him a job at a five-figure starting salary. A Kuhn, Loeb partner, passing through Hoover's headquarters in Paris, had spotted Strauss as a truly promising young man. He was right. Sometime Shoe Salesman Strauss prospered spectacularly on Wall Street, pushed Kuhn, Loeb into highly profitable steel-company financing (Inland, Republic, Great Lakes), became a full partner at 32, piled up a fortune...
...insisting on confining AEC's nuclear-power role to research and design, leaving the job of building reactors for commercial power to private enterprise. He drew much of the blame for AEC's heavily attacked (and long since canceled) Dixon-Yates contract, under which a private utility firm was supposed to build a power plant at West Memphis, Ark., right in the jealously guarded public-power domain of the Tennessee Valley Authority. He outraged stop-the-tests advocates by urging continued nuclear tests, with emphasis on developing "clean" weapons...
Finishing, Ike thanked the fascinated editors for their "patience" in "listening to a very homey exposition of some of my own views and convictions on this subject." Concluded the President: "They may not be very erudite, but they are earnest and firm." Last week, in a period of broad-ranging activity, the President also...
Back home in Indonesia, while he was away, the Constituent Assembly refused to play mouse. In long, hot, humid sessions, some 65 orators monotonously followed one another to the rostrum to orate. Privately, many of them pressed Premier Djuanda for firm promises of future employment if they voted in Sukarno's constitution. Djuanda was at first evasive, finally lost his temper and shouted that "unpredictable things may happen"-a thinly disguised threat of a military takeover if the assembly did not get a move on. Angrily, the assemblymen three times refused to pass Sukarno's plan, and then...