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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Under Secretary for Economic Affairs C. Douglas Dillon, by all odds the Capitol Hill favorite, and probably (if agreement in principle is the prevailing factor) the likely choice of Foster Dulles himself. Dillon also rates high with Ike, but to name him would be to move him ostentatiously over Herter's head...
...Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., 56, heir to a great Republican name, for 13 years Senator from Massachusetts, Dwight Eisenhower's campaign manager in 1952. President Eisenhower has great respect for Lodge, has insisted that he attend Cabinet meetings. But the nomination of Cabot Lodge, for all his obvious abilities, would almost certainly invite trouble in the Senate, where oldtimers still remember the impetuous, sometimes undependable ways of his youthful days as a Senator-even though an older and more considerate U.N. ambassador has long since mended the ways...
...often one murder was avenged with another. And when the United Mine Workers set out 30 years ago to organize Harlan's prosperous coal mines, pitched battles between "Bloody Harlan's" miners and company police brought out the National Guard so often that guardsmen were on first-name terms with miners they tossed into jail by the scores...
...Stewart's skimpy training record. Promising nothing, Colonel Smith still seemed a trifle dubious: "I don't think reserve promotions ought to be taken lightly as they sometimes are." But this time, the Air Force, convinced that Jimmy's training file was fat enough, resubmitted his name on a list with at least one name likely to escape senatorial veto: Arizona's jet-jockeying Republican Senator Barry Goldwater...
...present-day American budget. President Eisenhower's indifference to this very real problem reflects an unwarranted satisfaction with a policy that allows men without diplomatic experience and--in some cases--familiarity with the country and language, to serve as Ambassadors to Italy, France, Spain and Great Britain--to name just...