Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...publisher of this influential newspaper, the Washington Post's Phil Graham realizes his great power and responsibility and aims higher with dreams of greatness, independence and institutionalism for his paper. To further this lofty and noble purpose, he hires Herblock to defame the President as a perplexed boob, the Secretary of State as a smug humbler, the Defense Secretary as a predatory capitalist and the Vice President as a bestial figure crawling out of the sewer...
...politicians warn him that his policies are going to lose the election, Secretary Benson glanced often at a motto, in small type, pasted to the marble base of his pen and pencil set, where only he could see it. "Oh Lord," it says, "give us men with a mandate higher than the ballot...
National Farmers Union, Denver. Essentially the farm organ of Trumanite Democrats, with a voice that seems higher than its membership: 308,000 family memberships in 25 states, strongest in the wheat-growing states of North Dakota, Colorado, Oklahoma and Minnesota. President: loose-jointed, Kansas-born James G. Patton, 53, onetime high-school athletic director. General counsel: ex-President Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan. Economic adviser: Leon Keyserling, chairman of Truman's Council of Economic Advisers. The Farmers Union was organized in Texas in 1902 by a few farmers and a country editor, and was dedicated to improving...
Including his free medical care, food, clothing, tax-free allowances, etc., today's serviceman, far from being inflicted with economic hardship, actually has a higher income (about $4,000) than his civilian contemporary (about $3,700), the commission reported. When he returns to civilian life, instead of putting him at a disadvantage, his training gives him an advantage. World War II veterans, for example, are making more money ($3,978 in the 25-34 age category, which includes two-thirds of them) on the outside, are better educated and own at least as many homes as their nonveteran counterparts...
Instead of "inveighing" against "business domination per se," Schlesinger maintains, today's liberals should point out that "government by a single interest is bad." The Eisenhower government, he claims, chose the "welfare of the few" over "the general welfare" in 1955 by giving tax reductions to the higher income groups...