Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early prospect for Secretary of Agriculture had been Representative Clifford Hope, Ike's able campaign adviser on farm policy. Eisenhower and his advisers, however, decided it would be unwise to lose him as chairman of the House Agriculture Committee (a job he will hold next January). Hope's successor would have been Minnesota's August Andresen, who represents a dairy state and might therefore antagonize grain farmers who suspect all dairymen of trying to lower grain prices. Ike's final choice: Ezra Taft Benson, a Utah marketing expert...
...place in the bathroom of Herr Berger's apartment and inscribed notes, while Berger and his band of German and French accomplices methodically beat Resistance secrets-and sometimes the life-out of their captives. Their system for getting a victim to talk was simple but effective: they would hold his head under water and flog his neck and back with rubber hoses. Sometimes, when the captive was a woman, Denise would oblige by holding the woman's legs while torturers performed their varied rites...
...cost of operating a campus has just about tripled. In 1950, U.S. campuses were getting $572 in income per student, only $345 in 1940. But in terms of 1940 dollars, this really meant a drop of $20. Only some public universities and junior colleges have managed to hold their...
...proceed to the problems created by the SRP. May I first take the liberty and correct some of your figures. The SRP does not hold 19 seats in the legislature but 1 (One) as against 4 of the BHE. When Mr. John J. McCloy says that this party together with some other right-wing parties "create a potential danger to all those that value democratic principles" he is undoubtedly correct. However, it would be a gross underestimation of the democratic forces now at work in Germany, and I am convinced that after a successful restoration of the social and economic...
...Single centralized labor might be even less representative of labor because it would no longer have to battle for membership in a non-competitive field. And for the labor movement itself merger would serve no long-term purpose; without competition membership would probably dwindle until labor could no longer hold its own in bargaining...