Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anderson had counted with painstaking, implacable care. By a cliffhanging, 49-10-46 roll-call vote that kept the crowded galleries breathless with suspense, Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 63, the President's nominee for Secretary of Commerce, became the first Cabinet appointee to be rejected by the Senate since 1925...
Talent for Controversy. Sometime Wall Street banker, longtime member (1946-50) and chairman (1953-58) of the Atomic Energy Commission, Lewis L. Strauss made a lot of enemies during his AEC years in the controversies that swirled about him: his winning fight to get an H-bomb program started, the...
"The Best I Know." Lewis Strauss sat out the session with a friend in his cavernous Commerce Department office. When he got news of the vote by phone, his eyes reddened, he bit hard on his pipe, then he said quietly: "We have to be able to take things like...
For the second time* in his 6½ years in the White House, President Eisenhower called newsmen to a special conference in his oval, green-walled office. Lewis Strauss, said Ike, reading a statement that he had scrawled out in black ink shortly before, is "a man who in war...
"Generation of Murderers." Occasionally, the Soviet anti-American campaign slips to patent idiocy. A 65-page pamphlet entitled "Their Morality" carries the publishers contention that it portrays "bourgeois morality in its true likeness," then opens with prize exhibit No. i: Denver's Jack Graham, who sought his mother'...