Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strike Presidents as being somewhat heedless of time and the proprieties. The classic case of this mutual difficulty came early in the nation's history, when Gilbert Stuart first set George Washington on canvas. "Now, sir," Stuart cheerily began as he took up his brush, "you must let me forget that you are General Washington and that I am Stuart the painter!" The President's bone-chilling rejoinder: "Mr. Stuart need never feel the need of forgetting who he is or who General Washington...
...Congress, there was Major General Wilton B. ("Jerry") Persons, a genial, Scotch-sipping and thoroughly efficient Alabaman who succeeded flinty Sherman Adams as chief of the White House staff. Where Sherman Adams had long been a congressional cuss word, Jerry Persons was a longtime congressional favorite. Where Adams had let the merest handful of visitors get past him to see the President, Persons began opening the door. "This place is becoming a madhouse,'' said one White House staffer-but the result was to let the warm personality of Dwight Eisenhower take wider and greater effect on his influential...
...that it, too, was extending the test ban two months to Dec. 31. Following day the Soviet Union announced that it will not resume its own testing until somebody else does-which left it up to the U.S. either to risk the propaganda loss of starting first or to let the suspension rest as it is. without the safeguards, e.g., inspection, it deems necessary to an effective agreement...
...Experiment. Faced with a breakdown of the discipline that made its communism work, Amana voted in 1932 to try capitalism. Land and shops were organized under a worker-owned corporation, which paid wages according to skill (up to $2 an hour now), sold the communal homes to members, let each family choose its own food, source of income, way of life. The new corporation, despite the Depression, promptly raised production of farm products, furniture and handmade textiles (1958 sales: $10 million). Profits replaced red ink the first year, rose to levels ($268,000 in 1958) that provided plow-back capital...
...Lockwood opened jars of baby food, arranged them on a clerk's desk. The children dug in greedily, splattered strained apricots and sweet potatoes generously over a stack of tax reports. Robbie started to cough on his food, and a nerve-shredded clerk told Mrs. Lockwood not to let him choke. "Mind your own business," she snapped. "It's my baby, not yours...