Word: pressinger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To President Eisenhower's bedside one morning last week came the week's most constant caller with the week's most pressing executive business. Businesslike Sherman Adams, pushing a twelve-hour day as White House No. 1 while Ike is away, reviewed the matter quickly. If the...
From the start the bank had trouble, and its organization lagged until onetime RFC Banker and Washington Post Publisher Eugene Meyer moved in as the first president, set up a staff. Next, in 1947, came John Jay McCloy, onetime Assistant Secretary of War, who boldly started funneling out bank funds...
The question is, then, what is the best way to fight the racist extremists? Is it by taking an opposite but equally extreme stand and hoping that the result will be a position half way between, or is it by demanding, firmly and quietly, something less than the ideal, indeed...
In spite of the pressing need for an eighth house, a hygiene building, a theatre, and other improvements amounting to 40 million dollars, there has been a general tendency to feel that all was pretty much all right at Harvard, while all was not quite right with the world. Several...
The law of the land is the Agriculture Act of 1947. Proposed by the Labor government in the austerity days of pressing food shortages and trade deficits, it offered the farmers a bargain: "guaranteed prices and assured markets" in exchange for an obligation to maintain certain standards of production. The...