Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made the most sense about the U.S. economy last week was Vice President Nixon. He ignored, for the moment, the economic thermometers that showed the cost of living at a new high, and unemployment compensation at a new high, too. He gave the body-economic a couple of solid thumps and came up with his prescription: some belt-tightening around the soft underbelly of business and labor, a generous dosage of self-reliance, and a faith that the U.S. Government has no intention of letting a full-scale depression develop...
...state this categorically," said white-tied Richard Nixon to a banquet of the American Newspaper Publishers Association in Manhattan. "There will be no depression in the United States...
...states should pay 50% on primary and secondary highways, provided instead that they should only pay 33¼%, and that the Federal Treasury should advance that. The Commerce Department had already leaked the word that the President would veto. But Senate G.O.P. Leader William Knowland and Vice President Richard Nixon warned that the bill was the best they could hope to get out of Congress this year, pointed out that the objectionable features would expire in one year. Eisenhower, trying to be reasonable about reasonableness, signed the bill into law, but added: "I would oppose any repetition of these...
...Richard Rubottom Jr., says "unwieldy and unworkable." Nor did Dulles mention specific solutions, but Washington heard talk of such stabilizing devices as export and import quotas, buffer stocks, revolving funds to buy up surplus commodities, production controls. More ideas seem likely to be a major result of Vice President Nixon's trip through South America, scheduled to start next week...
...horrific, indistinct. WE MUST POSTPONE OUR COMING TESTS, proclaimed the ad's sponsor, an organization called the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy-ACT NOW FOR MAN'S SAKE. The way to do that, said the committee, was to 1) write President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon; 2) write Congressmen, editors and commentators; 3) "organize a group" or work with existing groups "in your community." The point to make: the U.S.'s summer series of nuclear weapons tests at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific ought to be suspended right now. "Scientists warn," the committee warned, "that...