Word: martin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into a more severe recession. Confronted with this challenge, Dwight Eisenhower and four of the Government's top economic-policy shapers huddled in the President's White House office one afternoon last week. Present besides Ike: Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson, Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr., Economic Advisers Chairman Raymond Saulnier, Presidential Economics Assistant Gabriel Hauge. They knew that next day the Labor Department was to release a big black statistic certain to shake the nation's already jolted optimism: from December to January unemployment soared by a startling 1,120,000, bringing...
...letter came from Houston Oilman H. J. (Jack) Porter, 61, hard-riding Republican national committeeman, who wrote 25 influential Texas Republicans on official party stationery, asking them to support a $100-a-plate fund-raising speech from House Republican Leader Joe Martin in Houston. In the letter was a pointed paragraph that punctured the great gas balloon. Excerpts: "Joe Martin . . . has always been a friend of Texas, especially of the oil-and gas-producing industries. He mustered two-thirds of the Republican votes in the House each time the bill was passed ... It will be up to Joe Martin...
...mountains of truth and beauty is encircled by whooping savages : the critics. Last week New York Philharmonic Wagon Master Leonard Bernstein, whose hide has been punctured by as many arrows as any, leveled his Winchester at a particular pesky redskin. Asked what he thought of music critics by Reporter Martin Agronsky on NBC-TV's Look Here show, Bernstein replied: "I have come to take them not very seriously any more. When you do get mad at a critic is when he is a self-advertised authority and at the same rime proceeds to display ignorance, making mistakes, showing...
...varsity should be strong in the hurdles, dash, and middle distances, as key runners like miler Ed Martin and hurdler Joel Landau have recovered from ailments that were causes of concern before the Yale meet...
...Secretary Robert B. Anderson: "I can conceive of situations where tax reductions might be brought into play to help the resumption of economic growth. But it is our judgment that the present condition does not warrant such action." In that he was in tune with FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr., who still regards inflation as a major danger. Added Martin: "If I'm right in thinking that this strong, robust economy is suffering from overexertion, nothing can prevent the recovery of the patient-unless you give him a hypodermic that leads him to try to overexert himself again...