Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surely a group of outstanding Americans, including Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Messrs. Milton Eisenhower, Sulzberger, Clay and Lewis, could find a better use for $25 million than a granite monument in Georgia [TIME, Aug. 17], which only a small percentage of the population will ever see. Wouldn't $25 million worth of medical research centers, rural libraries, history scholarships and the like prove a more fitting monument to American history than this eyesore at Pine Mountain...
...aids, REA and soil conservation, means one thing to most of the farmers I talked to: a reassuring piece of insurance against disaster. To them, there is no insurance in a "flexible farm program," or a program minus this or that present-day provision. In North Dakota G.O.P. Senator Milton Young said: "A flexible farm-support program will be tragic for the Republican Party." His words would be taken seriously...
Overture. In Van Nuys, Calif., after a stranger in the municipal building told him that he would have to appear in court to answer a traffic summons, Milton Wiegman, 27, replied: "I don't . . . take that from any two-bit civil-service employee," learned too late that he had been talking to the judge who was to hear his case...
Since its birth, the U.S. has been so busy making history that it has found little time to enshrine that history in formal monuments. America's pyramids are its functional skyscrapers, and its triumphal arches are the factory girders. Last week a committee of Americans (including Milton Eisenhower, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, General Lucius Clay, John L. Lewis) announced plans for a huge monument to the U.S. past, to be erected atop Pine Mountain, near Warm Springs...
Main reason for the switch: a strong recommendation from Milton Eisenhower, who had been much impressed with Nufer during his fact-finding mission to Argentina. From Buenos Aires, Milton phoned his brother in Washington, and Ike passed the word to the State Department to keep Nufer...