Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...balanced-budget forces were led by President Eisenhower, persuading Republicans, buttonholing his friends, conferring in friendly fashion over whisky and soda with Democratic Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson and Democratic House Speaker Sam Rayburn at the White House. At his third weekly press conference in a row, the President read a long, prepared statement urging fiscal responsibility: "I don't believe that we should have higher taxes, and I do not believe that the U.S. wants higher taxes. That means to me living within your income...
...Republicans and ten Democratic Southern conservatives), passed a catchall housing bill, calling for spending $2,675.000.000-or $1,075,000.000 more than the Administration thought necessary-on urban renewal, public housing, college housing, etc. over the next six years. Despite token cuts accepted by Senate Leader Johnson, maneuvering skillfully against the possibility of a presidential veto, the bill would still authorize spending in fiscal 1960 of up to $185 million over the Eisenhower Administration's balanced budget...
Said the President at his news conference: "I believe that legislation that is certain to exacerbate the whole situation, that is going to raise tempers and increase prejudices could be far more harmful than good." Echoed Texan Lyndon Johnson, Senate majority leader who fanfared his own conciliatory program last month: "There is an atmosphere of reason in which all proposals can be considered and the issues decided upon their merits...
...UNSPEAKABLE SKIPTON (249 pp.)-Pamela Hansford Johnson-Harcourt, Brace...
This is not the tone in which an author normally begs his publisher for a handout. But Daniel Skipton is no normal author. Pamela Hansford Johnson has modeled him on that unholy terror Frederick William Rolfe, alias "Baron Corvo," who was recently reintroduced to U.S. readers in his previously unpublished novel Nicholas Crabbe (TIME, Feb. 2). Rolfe bit every hand that fed him and died penniless in Venice in 1913. Novelist Johnson has changed his name and shifted time and place to modern Bruges in Belgium, but she has kept intact his characteristics. Skipton boasts a Corvo-like title: Bulgarian...