Word: harold
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...Congressman from 1931 to 1936, Republican Hollister had fought the New Deal, voted against Cordell Hull's Reciprocal Trade Act. He was a longstanding disciple of ex-President Herbert Hoover, and it was Hoover who urged him on the Eisenhower Administration as the successor to free-swinging Harold Stassen as director of the International Cooperation Administration. Such were the misgivings about John B. Hollister's intentions toward foreign aid that he snapped as he took office: "I certainly would not accept direction of any program with the idea of cutting its throat...
...Common Market idea was born, British industry has been keenly aware that it will be badly hurt the day that Germany can sell her manufactures in a tariff-free market of six nations and 160 million people, while Britain is walled out. Impelled by this vision, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft last year proposed a plan for a wider Free Trade Area of 16 European nations-including the Common Market six-which would exchange manufactured goods free of tariff but keep national tariffs on agricultural products. This would allow Britain to continue giving imperial...
Such a two-step agreement, Harold Stassen stressed, would help reverse the tide of nuclear armament while still leaving the U.S. with "substantial nuclear-weapons capacity...
...ranks before the headmaster on Prize Day, the members sat, knowing perfectly well what was coming (it had been discussed in smoking rooms and pubs for weeks), but still eager to have the official word spoken. At last, in a lengthy statement uninterrupted by a single sound, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told them what they had all been waiting to hear: every member was to get a raise...
...unpretentious ceremony at 200-year-old Nassau Hall, Dr. Harold W. Dodds, 68, passed on the presidency of Princeton University to Dr. Robert F. Goheen, former assistant classics professor, who at 37 is the youngest chief executive to take office at the university since 1759. The new president's biggest problem, according to Dr. Dodds: renovating Princeton's antiquated physical plant. The retiring prexy's next assignment: determining, for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, what makes a good college president...