Word: provisionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ironically, the grandfather of U.N. Delegate Lodge went down in simplified textbook history as the man who did more than any other to block U.S. entry into the League of Nations. What the elder Lodge actually did was work out a compromise between total acceptance of President Wilson's...
Reciprocal Trade. Before passing the Administration bill by a resounding vote of 72 to 16, the Senate knocked out the Senate Finance Committee's most damaging piece of butcherwork: a provision that the President may not overrule Tariff Commission recommendations for higher tariffs unless majority votes in both houses...
Though modifying them in detail, the Senate upheld in principle two Housewritten provisions that President Eisenhower bluntly and publicly blasted (TIME, June 9). These provisions 1) give Congress a veto over transfer or abolition of any "major combatant function" in peacetime, and 2) authorize any service chief to go up...
¶ The provision giving Congress what amounts to a veto over any Pentagon decision to transfer or abolish a "major combatant function" is an "endorsement of duplication and standpattism."
Face to Face. The resolution made no direct reference to a summit meeting with Russia, but the implication was clear in the words: There can be "no substitute for personal encounter in the pursuit of human understanding . . . When men who profess the Christian religion make no adequate provision for a...