Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election day, the opposition parties accused Park supporters of stuffing ballot boxes and registering children as voters. Some of the charges were undoubtedly true, but connoisseurs of Korean politics decided that, despite the backsliding from the pure presidential balloting, the proceedings were still far more honest than a lot of other elections in the past. Result: of the 175 seats in the National Assembly, Park's party won a smashing...
...Senate, Johnson drew early attention by organizing and running the Preparedness Subcommittee after the start of the Korean war. The subcommittee saved the taxpayers $500 million by recommending changes in the tin program, another $1 billion by discovering that the Government was paying too much for natural rubber. Johnson's talent for getting his colleagues to agree was already in evidence: all 46 of the subcommittee's reports were unanimous...
Zemel vs. Rusk will also test the alleged "state of emergency" that is now in force. In 1950, President Truman declared a state of emergency in connection with the Korean War. In 1953, he reiterated the stand. Since then ten years have passed without renewal or recall of the executive order. Zemel will contend that if U.S. citizens are subjected to such conditions of extreme duress, the government certainly owes them detailed and up-to-date explanations of its policy...
...through 1964's first half. Turning to the present, not the future, Dillon reckoned that in 1963's third quarter, corporate profits rose 11% from a year ago to an annual rate of $27 billion after taxes, close to the peak of $27.8 billion reached during the Korean war. The Government expects that profits will continue to gain during the rest of the year (see chart...
West Germany was helped mightily by Marshall Plan aid and by history; the outbreak of the Korean war gave enormous impetus to German factories. But Erhard's own role as Minister of Economics was enormous. There he was year after year, laying down the rules, then applying Seelenmassagen. The pink, chubby optimist with the big cigar, who put them first onto bicycles and motorbikes, then into Volkswagens and Mercedes's, became a hero to West Germans. Despite long and stubborn opposition from Adenauer, who considered him an economist, not a politician, Erhard became...