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...Dwight D. Eisenhower quickly asserted that no one questioned the loyalty of the former President. Brownell hastily agreed with the Chief Executive. Congressman Harold Velde rushed to subpoena Truman but he tripped over his Committee's by-laws and popular resentment. Senator Joseph McCarthy tried to make himself to focal issue in the 1954 election but Eisenhower said he hoped the whole spies-in-government excitement would be a matter of history by the next election and that the GOP would run on its legislative program. Many claimed the President couldn't control his own lieutenants; other praised his political...
...Chief Asset. The farmer is not only news politically-a focal question mark for both parties in 1954-but he is facing an important milestone in his relationship with the rest of the nation. "The Program" of almost 20 years' duration is now under study by the new Administration. What the Administration does, for good or bad to the farmers, for good or bad to the nation as a whole, will depend in great measure on the attitudes of the farmers themselves. The whole process of thoughtful consideration of the farm program, reflected in farm and town alike...
...lean 50-year-old American Airlines Captain Elkins Floyd and his wife Mary were newlyweds, back in 1925, they resolved to raise a big family. A son was born, but as the years passed it became apparent that they would have no more children. The boy, Royce, became the focal point of their lives. He grew into a fine, strapping youth, was drafted into the Army after World War II, served in occupation forces in Germany, and came back to their home in Los Angeles determined to become a pilot like his father. "My ambition," he told the delighted airlines...
...focal point of the traditional installation was the presentation of the insignia identified with Harvard since its establishment in the 17th century. The Charter was the original charter granted by the General Court in 1650, and the Seal was designed in the same year. The earliest Books of college records, dating from 1643, and the Keys were those used in the inauguration of previous presidents...
When the Germans overran Norway in April of 1940, Jakobson field to Sweden and finally to the United States. In this country he received a teaching position at Columbia and continued his work on the Igor Tale, the focal point of all his study. He has been devoting virtually all his research time to this Russian epic, and it is the main concern of his seminars...