Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There really isn't any good reason, though, why the Secretary has to be Admiral Lewis Strauss, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. In fact, there are a number of good reasons why it shouldn't be, but none of them seem to have occurred to the White House...
"You look just like a Secretary of Commerce," joked Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks to a visitor last week. The comment was fitting: the courtly, well-tailored caller had an aura of dignity and success suitable to a Commerce Secretary, and furthermore he was soon to become Commerce Secretary. After nearly...
Like Weeks, Lewis Strauss, 62, is a millionaire, but his origins were radically different. Weeks was born to money and status, went to Harvard. Brainy, West Virginia-born Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss (pronounced straws) never went to college, started out as a traveling shoe salesman. As secretary to Food Administrator Herbert...
Wounded by the barbs of controversy, sensitive Lewis Strauss vowed never to accept another Government post once he stepped down as AEChairman. Big reasons why he took on the Commerce job despite that vow: 1) a conviction that much can be done on the international economic front to help the...
"That's the bit," said the Old Fox, "give them something they can understand Keep it going. Osborne, Kirby, Lewis, let's go, let it flow, let it roll, push it over, over the goal."