Word: marches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President. In the midst of the 1958 economic recession, Democrats were shouting for the Administration to start priming the fiscal pumps. Some of the President's closest advisers urged him to take spending measures against depression. Ike stood firm, refusing to panic under tremendous pressure (TIME, March 24, 1958 et seq.), and the economy dramatically righted itself as he had insisted it would...
...Morgan, of Cleveland, Ohio, who did stockade time in the U.S. Army, earned his Cuban rank fighting Dictator Fulgencio Batista last year in the central Cuban mountains of Las Villas province (in a minor revolt parallel to Castro's Sierra Maestra campaign). Approached by anti-Castro Cubans in March. Morgan went to Castro. On Castro's orders. Morgan joined the plot, brought in some fellow officers and even set up his luxurious Havana home, a prize of war, as the meeting place...
Middle of the Night. Paddy Chayefsky's highly effective saga about a lonely September widower (Fredric March) and a neurotic May girl (Kim Novak...
With polio epidemics raging in Des Moines and Kansas City, and scores of needy patients requiring costly, round-the-clock hospital care, the funds allotted to local chapters by the National Foundation from the March of Dimes were fast running out. So the foundation asked local authorities for permission to stage out-of-season drives for emergency funds. Des Moines agreed, and more than $50,000 has been collected. But in Kansas City the request blew up a storm...
Mayor H. Roe Bartle and the city council were angry because Kansas City had contributed $105,000 to the March of Dimes, got back $34,000 for patient care -and now the National Foundation said it could not allot more because all its funds were committed. Snapped Mayor Bartle to a foundation spokesman: "I think you have sold the people a bill of goods." Councilman Charles C. Shafer Jr. tossed in the time-worn allegation about high headquarters overhead: "There's just too much discount by the Foundation before the money gets to the people...