Word: last
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...welter of confusion, inertia, committee meetings and high-minded oratory, three propositions last week seemed to be taking shape...
...convention's all-important first ballot, hope that this will be enough to head off any bolt to Adlai Stevenson. And if, in the course of this power play, Johnson should finesse the nomination for himself, that would be fine. At a press conference in Des Moines last week, Lyndon said: "I am not a candidate and I do not intend to be. I do not say that I would not serve my country if the convention should do the unusual and select someone who isn't a candidate...
They laughed when Harry Truman stood up to play a little politics. But before the evening was over the 1,600 paying guests ($100 a plate) gathered in Manhattan's Waldorf last week to honor Eleanor Roosevelt's 75th birthday knew that Harry Truman looks on 1960 Democratic politics, and his part in the show, as no laughing matter...
...When the last brickbat had been flung, Eleanor Roosevelt rose up like teacher reproving a wayward elderly schoolboy. "He doesn't like certain kinds of liberals," she said. "I welcome every kind of liberal . . . Perhaps we have something to learn from liberals that are younger." Flushing to his hairline, Truman managed to applaud politely. But, as usual, he had the last hot word. Next day before he flew back home to Missouri, Truman grandly assured attendant reporters that "there isn't any split. There aren't any liberals in the Democratic Party; they're all Democrats...
...Last week, with the blessings of World Bank President Eugene Black, a new kind of international commission was being formed, to concentrate on devising coordinated aid programs for one key area -India and Pakistan, where nearly 500 million people live. The commissioners would be top-drawer private bankers-for the U.S., perhaps Chase Manhattan Bank's John J. McCloy or Detroit Bank & Trust Co.'s Joseph M. Dodge; for Britain, Sir Oliver Franks; for West Germany, Chancellor Adenauer's influential banker friend, Hermann Abs. Perhaps Jean Monnet would be added from France, and Escott Reid from Canada...