Word: hards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overtaxed. In Atlanta, audits revealed that Georgia's Comptroller General Zack D. Cravey spent $1,180 for an office desk, $295 for a posture chair, $28 for an enlargement of a picture with the inscription: "DO YOU WORK TOO HARD...
...more cooperative on joint economic development than he has been in the past; moreover, the technical obstacles to U.S.-U.S.S.R. foreign aid-e.g., project control, currency convertibility-are large. But the President, buoyed up by the success of his personal diplomacy to date, intends to press hard for his new approach with Khrushchev this week. As he said in his TV talk with Prime Minister Macmillan in London, "There are millions of people today who are living without sufficient food, shelter, clothing and health facilities. They are not going to remain quiescent. There is just going...
...victory had won Halleck a bottle of presidential Scotch; another, joked the President, would win a second bottle. Halleck swore to do his all, dutifully got off wires and cables to absentees, cracked the G.O.P. whip. But since their support of the first veto, a critical number of his hard-pressed Republicans and antipork Democrats had become convinced that a second antipork vote would bring defeat in next year's elections. Result: 280 (260 Democrats, 20 Republicans) to 121 (5 Democrats, 116 Republicans), a lucky 13 votes more than the Democrats needed to override...
Conscientious Labor Secretary James Mitchell works hard at trying to be a good Republican shepherd to all U.S. workingmen. With prosperity and union organization, most of his flock live fat in the fold-but he worries over one nagging exception. Wandering up and down the nation's agricultural circuits, from California to Washington, Texas to Michigan, and Florida to New York, more than 500,000 migrant farm workers, following trails of seasonal planting and harvesting, work and live in scrabbling poverty which Mitchell calls a "national disgrace": average earnings in 1957 of $892, hourly wages...
Conscientious Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson strives to be a good Republican shepherd to U.S. farmers, hopes mightily to lead them out from under the oppressive fold of Government regulation, so that they can profit by their own ingenuity and hard work, and not by scandalous subsidy. Last week Ezra Benson's conscience clashed with Jim Mitchell's conscience over migrant labor in one of the few public Cabinet rows of the Eisenhower Administration...