Word: harold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harold Stassen's future as presidential disarmament adviser had been behind him for weeks, but nonetheless he and President Eisenhower went warmly through the formalities of a Washington leave-taking last week. In a phone call to the President's retreat in Thomasville, Ga., Stassen told Ike that at long, long last he had decided to leave the Administration to run for governor of Pennsylvania.* Stassen followed up the call with a formal letter of resignation, received a genuinely warm reply: "In the important posts to which you have been assigned, I have been most appreciative of your...
...Moving to Pennsylvania, where he has maintained voting residence since his 3½-year stint as president of the University of Pennsylvania, Stassen figures to be just about as welcome as he was in Washington. Said Pennsylvania's Republican Chairman George Bloom on hearing of the Childe Harold's gubernatorial intentions: "Anywhere that I haye had any contact with Republicans in Pennsylvania, I have found no sentiment for Harold Stassen...
That could hardly have worried Harold Stassen less: he was already hard at work hammering tenpenny nails into his political platform. His first plank: "There should be a summit conference-the sooner the better...
Back from a 32,000-mile, six-week swing through the farthest reaches of the Commonwealth, Harold Macmillan felt a "sense of exhilaration and renewed faith" in the strength of Britain's empire ties. The Commonwealth had seen an unexpectedly relaxed and genial Macmillan. Fresh from a rousing reception in India, he landed at Karachi in Pakistan (in a Britannia turboprop airliner nicknamed "The Flying No. 10") to be greeted by cheering thousands, detoured 700 miles north to the North-West Frontier mountains never before visited by a British Prime Minister...
...months the last holdout at the White House, President Eisenhower has at long last decided to dispense with the services of Perennial Politico Harold Stassen, the Administration's disarmament adviser, who stirred up a ruckus over Vice President Nixon's renomination in 1956, recently has undermined Secretary of State Dulles' disarmament policy by agitating for an agreement with Russia to end atomic tests. The details of Childe Harold's departure have not yet been decided, but he knows the route to the door...