Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gyrations of the stock market. He was infuriated by White House Adviser (for foreign economic policy) Clarence Randall's description of the Soviet Sputnik as "a silly bauble." Dwight Eisenhower scowled darkly at the humdrum text of a speech on medical education, tb be delivered to the National Fund for Medical Education that night in New York. Growled he to an aide: "Let's go ahead with our idea-right now, tonight...
...that the Administration go farther toward explaining the true state of the nation's security to the people, by relaxing the secrecy curbs on reports of missile progress. From his travels afield Nixon, along with Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn, reported that the President still had a vast fund of popularity and respect-but that he was not making the most of it. Most of all, Nixon sensed that the rest of the U.S. was ready to join Washington in going to work...
...volunteered to work for Dwight Eisenhower in the pre-convention campaign. While in Chicago Rogers also caught the eye of Richard Nixon, went along with the vice-presidential candidate on a Western swing, was with him when the news broke that Nixon was the beneficiary of a trust fund put up for him by California admirers. Preparing for his "Checkers" television explanation to the nation, Nixon used Rogers as a sounding board. Said Nixon later: "In that talk, Bill was advising me on how to appear before a jury, the greatest jury. I liked to throw ideas around...
Visiting Manhattan last week to boost the National Fund for Medical Education, President Eisenhower took time as well to boost an old friend. Summoned to Ike's Waldorf-Astoria suite for 15 minutes of pleasantries and pictures was Robert Keaton Christenberry, 58, Republican candidate for mayor of New York in next week's election. Christenberry has had rough going battling the entrenched solidity of Incumbent Democrat Robert F. (for Ferdinand) Wagner Jr., who has served one four-year term, wants a second, has a good chance in Democratic New York City of getting what he wants. Candidate Christenberry...
...loses five years (beyond college) during which he might have been earning money. For the schools to raise tuition fees would bear heavily on the already hard-pressed student, and would do little to close their budget wounds. Upshot: despite heavy contributions, notably those raised by the Fund for Medical Education that Ike praised, the schools still need $10 million a year to break even...