Word: money
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Looking around wildly for some way to save money with a minimum of local political pain, the House Appropriations Committee last week seized on a favorite target: foreign aid. Last week it whacked the European recovery appropriation down $629 million to $4.6 billion, and sliced $150 million out of the $1 billion appropriation for U.S.-occupied areas. Promptly, the alarms sounded...
...head to the President. The House has not yet acted, and seemed to be in no hurry. ¶Approved unanimously a bill permitting the annual admission of 100 aliens who have jeopardized their lives in espionage activity for the U.S. It also permits the Central Intelligence Agency to spend money for espionage without accounting...
...Spotlight. In this kind of atmosphere came the explosion on the floor of Congress last week. Louis Johnson's enemies thought they had found two vulnerable places to attack him: he had moved into the Pentagon from a strictly political post as Harry Truman's money raiser; he had resigned his directorship in Consolidated Vultee just three days after he was nominated for the office which must decide the future of Consolidated's controversial...
Louis Johnson's own father had no plantation. He was a grocery clerk in Roanoke who married Katherine Arthur, the colonel's daughter. A man of good family, little money and less education, Marcellus Johnson taught his son the value of an honest dollar, taught him to think and speak for himself, prodded him on with the fierceness of a man who has missed opportunity himself. After his counsel, no one had to teach Louis Arthur Johnson to get out in front and stay there...
...news, but not out of action. And he was careful to keep in touch with his fellow Legionnaire, Harry Truman. Last fall, when Truman looked around for a man to raise money for his campaign, his eye fell on Louis Johnson...