Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President's plan to borrow $7.3 billion directly from the Treasury-a tactic designed to bypass the authority of the penny-pinching House Appropriations Committee. Even respected Republican Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon argued that such "backdoor spending" was an economically sound procedure, used by every President since Herbert Hoover to support some 20 federal agencies. Aid Opponent Passman felt so sure that he did not have enough votes to block the bill in his Appropriations Subcommittee that he called off hearings. Kennedy himself felt confident enough to reject a compromise on the five-year commitment offered by Minnesota...
Ragtag Army. Dumped by the regular Democratic organization, Wagner is desperately shopping for influential backers. But so far he has produced only former Senator Herbert Lehman, avuncular head of a small reform Democrat movement. James A. Farley, far removed from the inner circles of New York politics, and blustering Mike Quill, president of the Transport Workers Union. With such a ragtag army, Wagner is almost sure to lose to Levitt if he insists on entering the Democratic primary. But the mayor is also the Liberal Party candidate, and can run on the Liberal ticket in the general election. At that...
...This Is Not America." State legislators were so vexed at the regents' dawdling that Hawaii's Governor William F. Quinn fired the entire board, appointed a new one headed by Hawaiian Pineapple Co.'s energetic President Herbert C. Cornuelle. Things began to move a bit. Though still without a plant of its own, the center scoured Asia for students, snapped up Fulbright rejects. The bait: two-year scholarships, valued at $9,000, including transportation, books, board and room, $50 a month spending money, and a two-month study tour of the mainland. When ground was broken last...
Wagner's announcement came after three months of hemming and hawing about his own candidacy and his choice of running mates. The mayor had been under heavy pressure from dissident camps about his ticket. Democratic reformers led by Eleanor Roosevelt and Herbert Lehman wanted Wagner to dump both City Council President Abe Stark and Controller Lawrence Gerosa as incompetent. New York's Liberal Party-a powerful third force in New York politics-also demanded that Stark and Gerosa be left off the ticket. But Wagner was under equally strong pressure from regular party leaders to keep...
...Herbert Feis, economist, Pulitzer prize-winning historian (Between War and Peace) Litt.D...