Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That was the end of any pretense at any political unity among the aging "anti-Fascists." After a tense meeting of the AFPFL, the rivals last week agreed to a "divorce by mutual consent." In a radio address to the nation, Premier U Nu said: "I did my best to bring about unity within the AFPFL. But if this is impossible and the split occurs, I must go with one side. I can't remain neutral...
...Donald Slichter, 57, was elected president and chief executive officer of Milwaukee's Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., eighth largest life insurance company in the U.S. (insurance in force: $9 billion). A graduate engineer (University of Wisconsin, '22) and amateur gardener (roses), Slichter, brother of Harvard Economist Sumner Slichter, has been a vice president in charge of Northwestern Mutual's investment portfolio since 1949¶Emerson Foote, 51, a founder and onetime president of Foote, Cone & Belding, who once shocked Madison Avenue by voluntarily giving up the $12 million American Tobacco account, again caught fellow admen flat...
...Mutual, frank evaluation of points of view by various sects is very much better than silent indiscriminate toleration by each of anything and everything that another calls religion...
...Base. During the debate over the interest rate, Bill Fulbright took off onto a new and unusual line of advocacy. Arguing for his 3% interest, he ticked off foreign nations that have fared as well or better with U.S. loans: "Afghanistan pays 3% on its mutual-security-program loan. Burma paid 2⅜ on an overseas surplus property loan. Nationalist China under the mutual-security program has been paying 3%." Cried he: "It is beyond my understanding why grants to that extent and loans for economic development in the amount of more than $41 million can be extended...
...echo from another hard-pressed Democrat, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, who also soundly prides himself on understanding the national need behind foreign aid. "If the Administration insists on turning down the legislative enactments of the Congress," he said, "then the Administration can note in its executive notebook that mutual security and reciprocal trade are going to be in trouble...