Word: krock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John F. Kennedy is floundering in a sea of troubles," wrote New York Times's Washington Columnist Arthur Krock. "He has reflected the uncertainty of what to do about it that Hamlet expressed in the famous mixed metaphor of the soliloquy. It is this shifting of tactics and moderation that has encouraged some of his opponents to believe they can retire him from the presidency after one term...
...Sarah McClendon. "I saw my wife's picture watching a snake charmer in India," Kennedy said. "As soon as I learn Sarah Mc-Clendon's favorite tune, I'm going to play it." He dealt deftly with another frequent press critic, New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock, and with Washington's Metropolitan Club, which does not admit Negroes. "Krock criticized me for not letting President Tshombe of Katanga come here"the President noted. "So I told him we would work out a deal. I'll give Tshombe a visa and Arthur can give...
...days by a majority vote of either the House or the Senate. And to make sure that no body missed the other point, Kennedy confirmed his intention to name Weaver as the new department's head. (Such an announcement, severely noted the New York Times's Arthur Krock, "is rare if not original in cases where a post does not exist...
...York Times Columnist Arthur Krock was frankly sympathetic toward Katanga's President Moise Tshombe. "It has not been demonstrated," said Krock, that Tshombe would cont nue to obstruct a Congolese peace "if and when a reasonable and constructive solution is formally and officially proposed by the U.N." Columnist David Lawrence coldly accused the U.N. of hypocrisy in claiming any legal right to enter the Congo. Said the Wall Street Journal: "It is not at all clear that the U.N. has some moral duty to subdue Tshombe by force. Secretary-General Thant is no Abraham Lincoln trying to hold together...
...grey spring of 1940, when most of Europe had fallen to Hitler's legions, Arthur Krock, then the Washington bureau chief of the New York Times, read and was deeply impressed by the college thesis of a 23-year-old Harvard senior. Krock urged that the paper be published in book form-and with the title Why England Slept, it sold some 40,000 copies on both sides of the Atlantic. As a study of the mistakes that took Britain into war, and as a warning to the U.S. against such errors, Why England Slept was a considerable achievement...