Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Right-Wing Columnist David Lawrence argued that Ike's reference to the danger of an "unexpected" change in governments in the U.S. could refer to more than the risk of a President's death in office. Contended Lawrence: "Whenever he says he doesn't intend to run again, the news will come as a shock . . . The 'unexpected' will then develop with intensity. American leadership will suddenly become uncertain and perhaps frustrated. [This] type of change would produce far more damage to world affairs in general and to the economic situation in the U.S. National policies...
Specifically, Kingsley has promised CBS five Spectaculars in the next five years, but he will also do serious "thinking" about TV problems and will suggest ideas for special projects: "I intend to develop the magical quality of TV, the things it can do technically that it hasn't begun to touch. Man's earliest dreams were allied to the idea of seeing on the walls of his cave a vision of something as it happens. And where realism is called for, I'm going to try and get good realism. I want more truthfulness in the execution...
...Manhattan's Commodore Hotel a couple of weekends ago, about ten of the Ikemen specifically decided: 1) to encourage pro-Eisenhower candidates to run next year for congressional and local offices across the U.S., 2) to reactivate the Citizens for Eisenhower movement of 1952. They do not intend to put any pressure on the President to run, but they do see the need for what one of them calls "a movement of rededication" to Eisenhower...
...national monument," the doctor tells him. "That monument must be ... defaced." The method: "I intend to find his weakness and use it to destroy him." In a word: brainwash...
...Does he intend to file in New Hampshire, where his 1952 win over President Truman gave him perhaps his finest hour? His grinning reply: "I heard somewhere or another that my political associates were already getting their snowshoes out." And Florida? Said Kefauver: "The sunshine is very beautiful in Florida this time of year...