Word: lating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vindication of Dixon-Yates came just four weeks too late to help Lewis L. Strauss in his unsuccessful battle to win Senate confirmation as Secretary of Commerce. During the prolonged Strauss hearings (TIME, June 15 et seq.), Democrats made much of his role as AEC chairman in working out the Dixon-Yates contract, used it against him in the fight that led to the first turndown (49-46) of a presidential Cabinet nomination since the days of Teapot Dome...
...living slice of Americana," burbled a fashion-industry press release. The slice: the 47-model fashion display to be shown four times a day at the U.S. exhibition opening in Moscow late this week. But when 250 fashion editors of U.S. newspapers and magazines saw a preview in Manhattan last week, 41 of them signed a petition protesting that the half-hour show was "not representative of the American way of life...
...sense, Hubert Humphrey arrived on the political scene too late. His brand of liberal was more at home in the mid-New Deal years, when a popular politician was the intellectual spellbinder who opened the floodgates of the U.S. Treasury with his Phi Beta Kappa key and let the dollars flow over the Depression-parched land. Humphrey's problem is painfully shared by all Democratic liberals. In midsummer 1959, it is growing ever clearer that the Democrats have all but come to the end of the line on the New Deal-born issues that have served them...
...disgruntled president of the Malayan Chinese Association, Dr. Lim Chong Eu, wrote a "secret" letter to the Tengku (which was soon leaked), demanding 40 seats. Answered the Prince angrily: "Your action in presenting me with an ultimatum at this late hour is really a stab in the back...
Urrutia of late had been trying to act like a President. He vetoed some minor Castro decrees, held up others. He favored going slow with land reform. But to Castro, his most maddening act was his denunciation of Cuba's Communists as "criminals" just when Castro was making common cause with the Reds in a bitter tirade against a committee of the U.S. Senate...