Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year was generally attributed to the Johnson landslide, said that the President's foreign policy has recently become very Republican. Republicans have supported President Johnson's decisions on Vietnam and the Dominican Republic, he said, while many Democrats favor "a softer approach toward Communist infiltration." Taft said he favored firm opposition to Communist aggression. He suggested that voters might be asked to support Republicans in 1968 to give the President more backing in Congress...
...surrender or U.S. withdrawal the answer. "We don't want to surrender, and we don't want to join the slave camp. That is why each and every one of the 30 million people of Thailand support the policy of the United States of standing firm against aggression." As for bombing North Vietnamese targets: "It is a hard decision to have to resort to force to meet force. But I think the future will bear out that this courageous position will not only have preserved peace in Southeast Asia and South Viet Nam, but will go into history...
After 16 years, the Baltimore Guild has grown stubborn itself. It is putting up a stiff fight against management and it feels it is on firm ground. The wealthy Sun papers-the Sun, Evening Sun, and Sunday Sun-carry almost as much advertising linage as the New York Times. By spending lavishly on news coverage, they make just about everybody's list of top papers in the U.S. But they spend precious little on their own employees. They pay a top minimum of $150 a week for experienced reporters; 61 U.S. papers pay higher salaries, including the Kenosha News...
Colt will come here in late June to work with Rousmaniere for a month before taking over the former director's duties on Aug. 1. He is presently General Manager of Marketing for the Airco Distributor Products Division. Colt began his career as a storeroom clerk with that firm in 1947 and progressed through sales and management positions...
...with so little grace that critics have come to regard him as a tin-horn Robert Moses--they formed an alliance for progress with Boston's major business and civic leaders--Charles Coolidge, president of the Chamber of Commerce; Gerald W. Blakeley Jr., head of the real estate management firm of Cabot, and Forbes; and James McCormack Jr., vice-president of MIT and an active force in the Chamber of Commerce...