Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dwight Eisenhower's problems were different from those of Harry Truman or Franklin Roosevelt. In the 85th Congress, controlling Democrats who were cautious about speaking out against Ike in previous years have spent the session turning him down on such major issues as civil rights, the budget, mutual security, school construction. Their confident unity was simply analyzed: Democrats, since Congress convened last January, have been preparing a record for 1958's congressional elections, beyond that for 1960's presidential campaign. And they early decided that they had little to worry about from a President who in spite...
...their fight to cut foreign-aid appropriations. House Democrats put on a cloak that was tailor-made for their uncomfortable posture. As onetime champions of mutual assistance and onetime foes of isolationism, they could not use the well-worn cry-"Why pour good U.S. dollars down foreign ratholes?''-against the principle involved...
...already has about $9.5 billion in unspent foreign-aid funds appropriated in previous years-plenty to keep the program going. Democrats could therefore place themselves on the record at one and the same time for economy and for effective foreign aid. The argument worked: the House cut the mutual-assistance appropriation to $3,191,810,000, about $810 million below the Administration's request and $175 million less than the House's own earlier authorization (TIME...
Since 1947, said the President, the U.S. "has put into the defense part of our mutual security about $17 billion. Our allies have put $107 billion. This means that for all of the money we have put in, there have been hundreds and thousands of soldiers and sailors and airmen supported that we could not otherwise have supported at all on the side of the free world . . . I feel that America is not going to want to desert something that has been so laboriously and patiently built up over the past ten years by Americans of all parties, all races...
Founded and operated for a seemingly infinite variety of reasons, ranging from royal good fellowship, to mutual financial benefit (low-cost insurance), to generously financed works of public good will,† the nation's 248 major fraternal orders (125,861 local chapters) have shared as never before in the golden bounty of U.S. prosperity. Since 1947, overall membership in the Masonic order, biggest U.S. fraternity, has climbed 10% to 4,000,000; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, second largest, reports a husky 25% gain in new dues-paying brethren to a total of 1,200,000. From...