Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Important Key. Democratic Congressional Leaders Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn had already agreed on their general policy: they would wait for the Eisenhower Administration to present its program, deal with the proposals pretty much on their merits, hold off until 1958 (an election year) before unwrapping their own party-labeled legislative package. The Republicans faced a sterner test of congressional leadership. If the 1956 elections proved nothing else, they showed that the G.O.P. cannot depend even upon Ike's popularity to give it control of Congress; the key to an improved Republican congressional electoral showing lies in an improved...
...Japan. Eleven more years of staff work and carrier command in the Pentagon and Mediterranean won him his third star and command of the Sixth Fleet, which he immediately began running his own way. "I cannot tell you how exciting it is," he wrote to his close friends, "to hold in my two hot hands a large part of the striking power of the Navy. Others may pull the strings and add to or lessen my frustrations, strengthen or weaken, sharpen or blunt the weapon before it is handed to me; but it is I who have...
...Faculty Committee on Athletics has recommended his dismissal without officially announcing its reasons. Yet members of the committee yesterday denied published reports that the team's poor record was the cause. Instead, they maintained, Jordan has proved himself a "poor teacher," and failed to hold the confidence of players and other students...
...such Biblical authorities as Martin Luther, William Tyndale and John Wycliffe, that at death all men remain "unconscious" in the grave, only to rise for judgment on Resurrection Day. (Orthodox Protestants and Catholics today read Paul as meaning that the afterlife begins immediately at death.) Seventh-day Adventists also hold that after the Last Judgment impenitent sinners, and Satan with them, will be annihilated. But orthodox Christianity continues to interpret Christ's words, "These shall go away into everlasting punishment" (Matthew 25:46), to mean literally that rather than annihilation...
Despite a slowdown in housing and a few durable-goods industries, notably autos, the Federal Reserve all year long made a determined attempt to hold down spending. Stumping the nation with the fervor of a Johnny Appleseed, FRB Chairman William Martin pleaded with businessmen to take another hard look, and perhaps cut down on expansion and their demands for credit. "Creating more money will not create more goods," he argued. "It can only intensify demands for the current supply of labor and materials. That is outright inflation...