Word: posting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Career Man. In Taipei, Formosa, the China Post reported speculation as to why Dr. Shen Chang-huan had been appointed Ambassador to Spain: "Because the last two words of his name sound like Don Juan; because he knows how to dance the tango; because he was born in the year of the Bull...
...House name for himself in hard-digging committee investigations, e.g., of Race-Baiter Gerald L. K. Smith, of food-rationing abuses during World War II. In 1945 President Harry Truman, a poker companion of Anderson's, named him Secretary of Agriculture, succeeding Henry A. Wallace. Serving at that post until 1948, Anderson was a staunch advocate of flexible farm supports, has stuck steadfastly to that position ever since, won the gratitude of the Eisenhower Administration for his support of Ezra Taft Benson. Elected to the Senate in 1948, Anderson stands in the front ranks of Democratic liberals working...
Smarting under this rebuff, Adenauer proclaimed his intention to run for the presidency himself, and all Germany applauded his solution. Adenauer thought that the ceremonial job might be converted into a post as prestigious as that occupied in France by his friend Charles de Gaulle, but after prolonged study of the West German constitution his lawyers said no. All the while, inside the Christian Democratic Party, a bitter fight was developing over who should succeed Adenauer as chancellor. The old man himself favored Finance Minister Franz Etzel, a quiet corporation lawyer who could be counted upon to accept tutelage...
...will have to reckon with a long series of additional international meetings and this will demand on our behalf extreme watchfulness. If Geneva ends in stalemate, the ensuing situation will be even more difficult and dangerous. In view of these considerations, I cannot assume the responsibility of abandoning my post in such a critical phase." Friends added that with the death of John Foster Dulles, Adenauer had come to consider himself indispensable in resisting fatal Western concessions to the Russians...
...terseness, ferocity and cheek. A chronic vendettist, he repeatedly bared his teeth and his quill in Winchell feuds: against Singer Josephine Baker ("pro-Fascist, a troublemaker"). the Stork Club's Sherman Billingsley (they quarreled over a pack of cigarettes), Ed Sullivan (''style pirate"), the New York Post ("pinko-stinko sheet"), the "fourth estate" ("All those columnists rapping me-where do you think they get their material? They go through my wastebasket"), and everybody ("Look. I want to get back at a lot of people. If I drop dead before I get to the Zs in the alphabet...