Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson campaigned quietly among the big names of Capitol Hill (including New Mexico's Democrat Clint Anderson-no kin), faced the Democrat-dominated Joint Congressional Economic Committee, stoutly resisted charges that "living within our means" is a negative policy. Said Anderson: "The fact of the matter is that there is almost nothing which is more positive than fiscal soundness." Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr.. also appearing before the Joint Congressional Economic Committee, bluntly warned that there was "never a more important time than now" for balancing the budget. Behind Martin...
...employees. The men asked for time to find new jobs and went into an abortive sit-down strike, but the management was unmoved. Last week came helping hands from two Roman Catholic churchmen. Achille Cardinal Lienart, Bishop of Lille, and Emile Maurice Guerry, Archbishop of Cambrai, issued a joint statement about the responsibilities of managers toward the managed...
Star witness before Democrat Johnson's committee was Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, who brought along a signed statement from the Joint Chiefs of Staff to prove that they "consider" the Defense Department's $40.9 billion 1960 budget "adequate to provide for the essential programs," although they have doubts whether the budget provides enough money for all the programs included in it. One by one, the service chiefs-Air Force's General Thomas White. Navy's Admiral Arleigh Burke. Army's General Maxwell Taylor and Marine Corps' General Randolph Pate-backed up the statement...
General Secretary Willem Visser 't Hooft of the World Council of Churches commented that much would depend on "how ecumenical the council will be, in composition and spirit." There are "enormous" possibilities for cooperation (e.g., joint action against Communist oppression, prevention of atomic warfare, the problems of Christians in non-Christian countries), "provided that the Vatican is willing to admit and accept dogmatic differences." In Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury indicated that the Anglican Church would send an observer, if invited, but a spokesman for the Presbyterian Church of Scotland was dour. "We are very keen on the ecumenical...
...survey of corporate appropriations by the National Industrial Conference Board points to "a sustained rise" in outlays. The board's Chief Economist Martin R. Gainsbrugh told the Congressional Joint Economic Committee that the upswing will be "well timed" for the long-term recovery, show its greatest momentum in the second half...