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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the five-day convention was over, it was plain that Reuther had the C.I.O. under firm control. He ran the show with the brisk confidence of a ringmaster putting veteran circus horses through their paces. Handsome Steelworker McDonald showed his seething dislike of Reuther, but his hostility set off no fireworks. Every one of the 64 resolutions presented to the delegates passed with little or no opposition. Bathed in floodlights while cameras reeled up movies for TV, Reuther ticked off resolutions as though he were counting nickels: "Is there discussion? No discussion. All in favor say aye. Motion carried...
...himself appointed boss of the Kremlin's recovery plan. He has undertaken to revolutionize Soviet agriculture (for the umpteenth time) by 1956, to more than double its gross output. He promises to raise the supply of meat (230%), butter (190%), cheese (220%), sugar (230%). His record makes it plain that he will stick at nothing to get what he wants...
More precious than all these is the "black wealth" of the steppe: the deep, black earth that covers most of the Ukraine and stretches across the Volga into the plain of Siberia. Shorn of its black earth, the Soviet Union would die. It feeds two-thirds of Russia's 210 million people...
...large majority of the newsmen agreed that personally Eisenhower "has not embraced McCarthyism" because it "is distasteful" to him. Some correspondents divided the Republicans into two groups, which were defined by one reporter as "Eisenhower Republicans and the just plain Republicans. It is now a battle as to who is going to win. Ike hasn't found a way to bring both ends together. Brownell in his [first] speech certainly drifted from the Eisenhower Republicans, but was brought back into line by Ike." A few newsmen refused to comment altogether. Times Reporter Clayton Knowles suddenly remembered that...
...plain laymen, the nature of Christian hope may seem too self-evident to permit much argument, but it is in fact a knotty problem on which Protestant theologians are hotly divided. The key word in the preliminary discussions, held since 1951, has been "eschatology," a $15 Greek term meaning, literally, the last things, and, theologically, the manner of the Judgment, the resurrection of the body, the Second Coming of Christ...