Word: kefauveritis
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FDA got a shot of growth hormone in 1962 with the Kefauver-Harris law, which made the agency responsible for the efficacy as well as the safety of new drugs. But growth (from 800 employees and a $5,000,000 budget in 1955 to 4,400 and $53 million today...
Weaned in a politically-minded family, his parents both active in ADA and his father working in the Labor Department, Booth made his "first political mistake" in 1952 when he distributed leaflets for Harriman in the fight against Kefauver.
His circle widened far in 1952. Harry Truman had decided not to run again, and the winner of most Democratic presidential preference primaries was Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver, a lone-wolf liberal who was unacceptable to most national party leaders. Casting desperately around for someone else, they were...
Akers joined Marshall Field's Chicago Sun in 1941, and when the Sun merged with the Times in 1948, he was named managing editor. "He had a passion for perfection," says a newsman. "He just wanted a great paper in a hurry." The tabloid Sun-Times (circ. 534,000...
No other industry has had such strained relations with Washington as the steel industry. From the violent strikebreaking of the '30s to Harry Truman's short-lived take-over of the entire industry, from Estes Kefauver's investigations of pricing practices to John Kennedy's fiery...