Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Looking around wildly for some way to save money with a minimum of local political pain, the House Appropriations Committee last week seized on a favorite target: foreign aid. Last week it whacked the European recovery appropriation down $629 million to $4.6 billion, and sliced $150 million out of the $1 billion appropriation for U.S.-occupied areas. Promptly, the alarms sounded...
...service unity and prepared for unconditional political war. The chosen battlefield: the floor of Congress. The first salvo was fired by Pennsylvania's Republican Congressman James E. Van Zandt, a naval reserve captain, a veteran of both World Wars, an ex-National Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars...
Navy Secretary John Sullivan had quit in a rage. Last week, in a pointedly bitter farewell, he said he was leaving "a Navy that no foreign foe has ever defeated." Nobody in the Pentagon missed the stress on the word "foreign...
...most spectacular financiers (e.g., RKO, Greyhound Lines), Odium has made a specialty of buying up control of companies, putting them in good running condition, then selling out at a handsome profit. A recent buy (1947): Consolidated Vultee (he is board chairman). Other Atlas interests: United Fruit, American & Foreign Power (a subsidiary of Electric Bond & Share). A longtime Democratic angel, Odium was at first none too wild about Harry, but stoutly supported him. He gave $3,000 himself, got his associates to add $20,000 more...
Curtis Colder, member of Louis Johnson's party finance committee, board chairman of Electric Bond & Share, and longtime business associate of Floyd Odium (Calder was president of American & Foreign Power from 1927 to 1944). His $3,000 check for the party arrived Nov. 22, 1948, nearly three weeks after Truman's victory. The President offered to make him Secretary of the Army; he refused...