Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Defense Secretary Charles Wilson said he wished more Republican legislators would realize that they were no longer members of the opposition. Replied the President: "Brother, I heartily agree." When Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, at that meeting, cautioned that the national debt might go above the legal limit, Ike asked: "Who will have to go to jail if that happens?" Replied Humphrey: "We will have to go to Congress." Groaned the President: "Oh, that's worse...
...could quickly smooth out presidential relationships with Congress. It was not that easy: in 1953 came the thoughts of a third party-and the conflicts with congressional diehards continued in 1954. At a Cabinet meeting, when the furor over Republican Senator John Bricker's proposed amendment (to limit the President's treatymaking power) was at its raucous height. Civil Service Commissioner Philip Young facetiously suggested that perhaps a few A-bombs "could be used now to good effect." Says Donovan: "The President took him to task for this. He said sharply that he did not wish to hear...
...Greek majority among elected members of the legislature. In return, the Archbishop would probably compromise on the width and tenure of the security measures to be had by the British, might come to terms over the release of prisoners, and might no longer insist on a time limit for self-determination. If agreement could be reached on these points, Archbishop Makarios would immediately appeal to the terrorists to call off the violence-and, said Kranidiotis, he would be obeyed. Asked why the peace-loving Archbishop had not done this earlier, Kranidiotis explained that, as the elected representative of the Cypriot...
...guard against faulty vaccine, "there has been no ... evidence that any lot of [commercial] vaccine has been unsafe." From the millions of shots given to date, no more than one "suspicious" polio attack has come out of each big lot - a figure, according to Scheele, "well within the limit of expected coincidence...
...figure is for the general population, to avoid genetic trouble on a large scale. Individuals can take more without much additional risk to first-generation children, but the committee suggests a top limit of 50 r to age 30 and an additional 50 r to age 40. This is much less than the maximum dose permitted in Atomic Energy Commission laboratories:. 3 r per week or 15.6 r per year. The committee believes that all work involving high radiation exposure should be done, for the good of the race, by people who do not expect to have more children...