Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ribs of a fellow Democratic presidential possible, Massachusetts' John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Said Hubert: "Hello, Jack. What's this I hear? Have you been cutting me up again?" Replied Kennedy with a smile: "Not me, Hubert. Why, just last night I told a group that you would make an excellent President-but you could never be elected." Grinned Hubert: "You bastard...
Foreign Trade. "I believe that the reason we are having so much trouble competing with the other countries ... is that our costs are too high. We cannot continue to increase these costs and have the kind of foreign trade that will make our own country prosperous ... If we give way to the idea of just increasing tariffs along the line ... I just believe we are making the gravest mistake we could make...
Defense Rivalry. "There are conflicting views in any proposal that humans make . . . Now, you are certainly not going to get [agreement among chiefs of the Armed Forces] who . . . believe that in their service, in their own function, lies the safety of the U.S. Someone has to make the decision. That happens to be the Commander-in-Chief. Now, and I must say this, and I think possibly this is the first time that I have ever violated my own conception of humility and modesty: I think I am more able than any one of those [Pentagon chiefs] ... to make...
...doctrine of judicial review, the U.S. Supreme Court has the last word on basic U.S. law-and no good lawyer would have it otherwise. Likewise, good U.S. lawyers believe that they have a professional responsibility to judge the kind of law laid down by the court, and to make recommendations for statutes that would improve the legal fabric of the U.S. Last week the American Bar Association's 246-member House of Delegates reviewed the procession of Supreme Court decisions in internal security cases, sharply recommended that Congress plug the serious loopholes opened up by court's rulings...
...four years since Nikita Khrushchev, that gregarious, loquacious and energetic fellow, took command in Russia, the world has never ceased to marvel at the difference in temperament between him and the grim, patient, secretive Joseph Stalin. To some nervous Western leaders, Nikita's engaging expansiveness even seemed to make him the more dangerous foe. Yet last week impulsive Nikita Khrushchev made precisely the same kind of crucial error in judgment that dogged the career of Stalin...