Word: general
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back from his vacation in southern California, President Eisenhower met the somber group of Cabinet members and aides who trooped into his White House office at 8 a.m. last week. Among them were Labor Secretary James Mitchell, Attorney General William Rogers, Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, Commerce Secretary Frederick Mueller. All listened quietly while Mitchell reported some bad news to the President: labor and management had made no progress toward settling the longest nationwide steel strike in U.S. history. That left only one thing to do: President Eisenhower set into motion the machinery of the Taft-Hartley law, aimed at halting...
...President appoints a fact-finding board to assess the effects of the strike, and the prospects, if any, for solution. If the facts indicate that no solution is in sight, the President orders the Attorney General to go into a U.S. court for a "cease-and-desist" injunction to stop the strike. The Attorney General may seek contempt-of-court action if either side violates the injunction...
...coordinated space program with clearly defined, long-range goals. When a congressional committee tried to find out a few months ago what overall goals the various programs were pushing toward, ARPA's Johnson testified that he did not know of any "total long-term space program." Echoed Lieut. General Bernard Schriever, Air Force research and development chief: "I am not aware whether or not there is an effort being made to lay out one single program...
...general the U.S. officials found reason to hope that Khrushchev was sincere in his assurances that he sought peace. Khrushchev himself created the impression of a man who, at 65, knows that his years in power are numbered and would like to win his place in history by working for peace. Khrushchev expressed his belief that the era of bipolar power-i.e., the U.S. and U.S.S.R.-is nearing an end, spoke of the necessity of reaching agreements with the U.S. before Red China and India, with their human millions, come into their own economically and militarily...
Under the 7½-year rule of Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, the U.S. Post Office Department has become a sort of latter-day Watch and Ward Society. As part of an all-out antismut crusade, Summerfield tried to ban Lady Chatterley's Lover from the mails (TIME, June 22), succeeded only in helping that tired old novel to the top of the bestseller list. Last week Summerfield's men were wrestling with another lady, Francisco Goya's masterpiece, The Naked Maja...