Word: pleasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ By a 273-to-128 vote, the House passed the $3.2 billion mutual-security bill (also listed by the President). At one point in the debate, Wisconsin's Republican Representative Alvin O'Konski, soaring high on oratorical wings, nearly persuaded the House to refuse $50 million in...
The reports of the 1947 Hoover Commission were widely applauded and nearly 75% of the recommendations have since been adopted. The 1955 reports are far more basic and more controversial. Many of the recommendations have already been met with sharp criticism from New Deal Democrats and other advocates of big...
The fact is that the President has not made up his mind what he will do in 1956. He now genuinely enjoys some important aspects of his job, e.g., communication with the people through the televised press conference. If he could spot a successor who would carry on the Eisenhower...
Politically, the Socialist Club again took the spotlight when Lawrence B. Cohen, Jr. '32 managed to get himself arrested in the Square for distributing pamphlets which welcomed England's Premier MacDonald. The alert Cambridge police jailed him on Chapter 27 of the General Ordinances, it was learned afterward. Cohen was...
Ten years and $10 million later, the repair work is almost finished, and Nov. 5 has been announced as the opening date. All winter, the ticket stampede was on: a total of 7,000 applications arrived for the 1,658 seats. From the U.S. came pleas backed by blank checks...