Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joint Conclusion. Ike did make it clear that his final decision would be based primarily on his own evaluation of his ability to carry the burdens of the presidency, not alone on medical reports. "A doctor's sole care," he told his press conference, "is with his patient. He doesn't have to think about the things I do in trying to solve this problem." Nonetheless, at week's end Dwight Eisenhower drove out to the Walter Reed Army Hospital, and for more than an hour submitted to a battery of tests-blood chemistry, fluoroscope...
Harry Truman's account reported that the decision to fire MacArthur was unanimously endorsed by Secretary of Defense General George Marshall, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Presidential Adviser Averell Harriman, and by General Omar Bradley and his entire Joint Chiefs of Staff. MacArthur replied by accusing each of these principals of personal prejudices against him: Marshall's "enmity was an old one"; Harriman resented a heated conference in Tokyo; Acheson "had frequently exhibited petulance" because of MacArthur's interference with the State Department's "socialistic concepts" for Japan. As for Bradley, his enmity "undoubtedly...
...exercise was billed grandly as SEATO's "first joint international sea, air and land maneuvers." Thailand, which thought it up, declared that all eight nations had been invited to participate. The Thais' idea was to show how fast SEATO power could come to the aid of Bangkok, in a demonstration that SEATO is no "paper tiger." The U.S. Navy called it "Operation Firm Link" and declared it was intended to "signify the close-knit ties among the SEATO nations...
Wearing a dark suit and a cautious smile. Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin went before a joint congressional committee last week to testify on the state of the U.S. economy. After Martin explained how the FRB was "feeling its way" in the current credit situation, neither easing nor tightening credit, Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas tried some specific questions: DOUGLAS: Do you have any worries about the automobile industry...
Bridges' cancellation of his Forum appearance, which provoked violent denunciations of Thomson for allegedly undermining the Forum, also caused the latest protests. The HCC learned that the Senator had consented to address a joint HYRC-HCC program in late March...