Word: nixon
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...John Hay Whitney Foundation and his $10 million investment firm (sample risks: uranium in New Mexico, frozen orange juice in Florida), which has doubled its worth since 1946. More and more he interested and involved himself in politics. He was for Ike before Chicago, contributed heavily to the Eisenhower-Nixon 1952 campaign, served afterward on presidential committees on higher education, foreign-service organization and foreign economic policy. He called regularly on Dulles, played golf and bad bridge with Eisenhower...
Pushed, pummeled and applauded during his tour of the Camp Kilmer refugee depot last week, Vice President Nixon was asked by a newsman: "Doesn't the fanfare make it difficult for you to get at the facts?" Answered Nixon: "If the fanfare and publicity help at all to increase Americans' understanding of the refugees, then it's served a useful purpose...
JUNE. A local liquor shop will be raided and charged with taking bets and numbers. Store will issue denial, "Our customers are too young to read." Vice President Nixon will propose a modernization of the White House, adding a new wing and several steps to the main staircase. The Advocate will deny rumors that it is controlled by the Ladies' Home Journal...
...most cited text for their new reading came from Vice President Nixon's remarks, right after the U.S. voted against Britain and France in the U.N. General Assembly on the issue of Egypt: "For the first time in history, we have shown independence of Anglo-French policies toward Asia and Africa which seemed to us to reflect the colonial tradition. That declaration of independence has had an electrifying effect throughout the world." Britons saw the idea confirmed last week as India's Premier Jawaharlal Nehru emerged from intimate conference with President Eisenhower wreathed in smiles and declaring that...
...state capitals, 531 Constitution-ordained members of the Electoral College gathered to perform a patently superfluous rite, their sworn duty to re-elect (457-74) Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon to the nation's highest offices. In Alabama, however, one elector chose to ignore the vote that sent him to college, wrote in for President, instead of Adlai Stevenson, the name of Alabama's states-rightist Judge Walter B. Jones. Thus history books will forever record the 1956 election results as: Eisenhower, 457; Stevenson, 73; Jones...