Word: helmes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have never read anything so refreshing and heartening as John Eden's maiden speech in the House of Commons [TIME, July 5]. Plainly, what the nations need is to kick out the old, overcautious mossbacks and put youth at the helm . . . Every great enterprise is built by adventurous spirits. These are the young...
Decline & Fall. Before his death, he turned the helm over to Arthur Gauss, who had been with the company for eleven years, with instructions to keep the yard going. But Mrs. Nevins, who inherited all the company's stock, now finds that the cost would be too much. Gauss figures that the company's break-even point is $900,000 a year, and it is grossing less than $800,000, mostly because of the European competition. Says Gauss: "They pay a first-class mechanic 60? an hour, against $2.50 here. As a result, they can deliver a boat...
Other political decisions made last week: ¶Democratic Senator Ed Johnson, retiring from the Senate (TIME, April 12) but not from politics, allowed as how he is just the man to provide the "strong and experienced hand" that Colorado needs at its helm. Announcing his candidacy as governor, Johnson said: "I will not spare the horses." ¶ Louisiana's Democratic National Committeeman Frank B. Ellis, leader of the successful pro-Stevenson forces in his state's savage 1952 campaign, entered the U.S. Senate primary race against Incumbent Allen Ellender. Making it clear that he would leave no vote...
This week, after months of speculation, Texas' Governor Allan Shivers announced that he will seek what no other Texas governor has had: a third term. One big reason for his decision: conservative Democrats in Texas want to keep Eisenhower Supporter Shivers at the helm so the party leadership will not fall into New Dealing hands...
...turn into Moms-an addlepated aggregate of self-made tyrants who turn upon truth or freedom as swiftly as upon evil, if either hurts their vanity. And this last is founded on the busty credo that any act of procreation, including the accidental, gives them title to the helm of our currently beleaguered Republic...