Word: likelies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walking testimonial to the report of his doctors. Having examined Ike for two days from head to toe, including barium studies of the gastrointestinal tract, Army Surgeon General Leonard Heaton reported: "The best results we ever had."* Beamed Ike: "It was so good that I would like to go back oftener...
...efficiency, the steel companies had a strong case to make. And the steelworkers, for their part, had never been a union dedicated to featherbedding. By trying to make the changes in a sweeping manner, the steelmen had solidified labor into a newly militant front and lost much public support. Like many a controversy based on principle, the differences were far more apparent than substantial, might well yield to settlement if both sides would make the most of a cooling-off period to try a new approach...
...Absolutely Relentless." After killing off SPA, Truman named Symington Assistant Secretary of War for Air. When the Air Force split off from the Army in the defense reorganization of 1947, Symington became the first Air Force Secretary. Like all strong Air Force partisans, he had fought fiercely for a strong unification of the services, which both the Army and Navy believed would undercut their traditional independence. In the battle, he tangled with his old Wall Street friend, Navy Secretary James Forrestal. When Forrestal became the first Defense Secretary and Symington's boss, Symington fought him again...
Grey Flannel Mind. While Symington has followed the straight liberal line in his floor votes on domestic issues, he has hedged his A.D.A.-approved record by sometimes sounding so much like a conservative that many Bourbon Democrats count him as one of their...
...Facing an audience sprinkled with steelworkers, he pointed to his days in the foundry: "I've poured my share of iron. I've stoked open hearths." Said a steelworker: "The guy's O.K. He's been in the mills. He knows what it's like." Added a housewife: "He would make a good President...