Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Horrendous Buckshot. Next day in the House, the Democratic leaders, with many a soaring declaration for foreign aid already on the record, stood aside and let the appropriations subcommittee chairman, Louisiana's Otto Ernest Passman, carry the day for the funds cut on the House floor. As he engineered the cuts, Passman nervously crossed and recrossed his long legs, danced around in his sporty black and white Oxfords, demanded recognition by snapping his fingers into the microphone, once blew a rapturous kiss to a Northern Democrat who paid him a compliment on the thoroughness of his committee work...
...each) U.S. troops. But such sound answers were swept under piles of Passman detail, 19 columns of it quoted from his own hearings. Despite the President's press-conference claim that, by his "understanding," House Democratic leaders would not make the foreign aid vote a partisan affair, they let Otto Passman beat down Republican efforts to restore the cuts, send the mangled bill to the Senate...
...rebel guerrillas headed by Raúl Castro, left-wing brother of Cuba's Rebel Boss Fidel Castro (see HEMISPHERE). U.S. Consul in Santiago de Cuba Park Wollam and Vice Consul Robert Wiecha jeeped into the hills, talked with rebel leaders, got a promise that Americans would be let go, set up a Navy helicopter lift that began hauling out the prisoners a handful at a time...
...Institute of Technology, since November the President's special assistant for science and technology. Almost daily, he pops in and out of the President's office or on and off the President's private telephone line. More and more, the President holds off proposals with a "Let's see what Jim thinks about this.'' Among the most meaningful scribbles on official memorandums is "Killian has no objections." At a recent press conference, the President, asked whether the U.S. ought to get a Cabinet-level department of science, said he thought not, but that...
...standing of many of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer's friends and followers, who had had some trouble finding a high-level ear since Oppenheimer's security clearance was suspended in 1953. Yet Killian carefully balanced the politics of his panelists, then strongly warned them never, never to let political viewpoints influence scientific judgments...