Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breakoff of negotiations with steel supplies running out and ripples of unemployment spreading across the land cracked Dwight Eisenhower's already worn-thin patience. "I am not going to permit the economy of the nation to suffer, with its inevitable injuries to all," he told his press conference. "I am not going to permit American workers to remain unnecessarily unemployed...
Imperiled Health. At the White House two days later, the President met with U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough and five other top steelmen for half an hour, then with McDonald and three other United Steelworkers officials for about 20 minutes. At the closed-door meetings, said Press Secretary James Hagerty, Ike "did most of the talking," and was "quite firm." Later that day, the President issued a statement hinting that if the two sides failed to reach agreement by the time he got back from his vacation in California, he would invoke the Taft-Hartley Act's provision calling...
Among the other results of the U.S. visit of Khrushchev & Co.: SUMMIT CONFERENCE: "The conversations have, so far as I am personally concerned, removed many of the objections that I have heretofore held," said President Eisenhower in reply to a press conference question about a summit meeting. The President's point: with the Berlin deadline withdrawn, he was ready to go to the summit if and when U.S. allies agree...
DISARMAMENT: "Each stage of disarmament," said Khrushchev in his departing Washington press conference, should be "accompanied by the development of inspection and control." The West, accustomed to Russian doubletalk on disarmament and thoroughly unimpressed by Khrushchev's big U.N. propaganda pitch, took a hard look at this statement, got ready to find out, when the nuclear-test-ban talks resume next month in Geneva, if the Russians will take a more realistic position on inspection...
With Italian-American relations solid and satisfactory, Premier Segni actually had no great and pressing problems to hash over with President Eisenhower (the talks, said the communique, were held "in a spirit of close friendship"); he got a chance before the National Press Club to express his hope that Italy would play a role in a future summit meeting, and to warn the U.S. against reckless disarmament merely because of Khrushchev's "handshake and a few smiles...