Word: ist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Civil Liberties Union backed the suit, and Attorney William Butler, presenting the property owners' objections in court, contended that the prayer violates principles set down in the ist and 14th Amendments to the Constitution. The A.C.L.U. took the case, he said, because even though the prayer is nondenominational, it is "offensive" to some parents. Orthodox Jews, he noted, customarily pray in Hebrew and with their heads covered...
...Hell's fire." said Dwight D. Eisenhower as he shook the hand of Colonel Keith Ware, who once commanded 1st Battalion. 15th Infantry Regiment. "I used to command that outfit myself." The President was trading service talk about the ist Battalion, 15th Infantry and about other outfits with each of 216 Medal of Honor holders, who came to see him in the White House's rose garden on Memorial Day before they all went out to the burial of the unknown servicemen from World War II and Korea. Meeting an aging vet from the Philippine Scouts, he said...
...Plus 2=What? Now that Pilot Brett had the feel of it, we tried some experiments. With the plane refueled, we headed back to the acrobatic area. Brett's usual rear-seat man, ist Lieut. Arthur Brattkus, had prepared a mental-alertness test for me during our coffee break. On the back pages of a scratch pad he had written three elementary problems in arithmetic. These represented a mild foretaste of what a space pilot might have to do in the weightless state. Would my gravity-free brain be clear enough to solve them...
Curtice insisted that carmaking costs had risen faster over the past decade than wholesale prices of G.M. cars. Old Social ist Reuther damned the automakers' pricing policies as "greedy" and "irresponsible," called their profits "fantastic," urged creation of a federal fact-finding agency to decide in advance whether price increases, in or out of the auto industry, are "justified." Equally far apart were the Curtice and Reuther economic prescriptions. Curtice urged federal tax cuts "across the board" to jack up spending by business firms and consumers. Reuther called for big wage raises to boost consumer purchasing power...
...civilian team mustered by McElroy last week to serve in effect as management consultants - the Air Force's General Nathan Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Admiral Arthur Radford and Army General Omar Bradley, Twining's predecessors as J.C.S. chairmen; William C. Foster, Washington industrial ist (Olin Mathieson Corp.) and former Deputy Defense Secretary (1951-53); Charles Allerton Coolidge, Boston lawyer and former Assistant Defense Secretary (1951-52). (Absent member: Nelson A. Rockefeller, part-sponsor of the Rockefeller Report, which recommended an overhauling of Pentagon organization -TIME...