Word: publically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the N.A.M., Ike exhorted the nation's business leaders to lend their influence to communicating "the matter of fiscal integrity" to others. "The strongest force in a democracy is an informed public opinion ... I can't conceive of a better and finer occupation, really a vocation, rather than an avocation, for anyone who is employing others and dealing with others ... than to use his influence in making certain that [fiscal problems and the principles of frugality] are understood...
...college, a few weeks behind the Methodist groundbreaking for a college at Rocky Mount and three years behind the brand-new $19 million campus of Baptist-affiliated Wake Forest College in Winston-Salem. All were additions to Dixie's best college complex, fed by Dixie's best public school system. In the center of the Piedmont, engineers mapped sites for nuclear, chemical and industrial research labs in a new, 4,000-acre "Research Triangle." East of Charlotte's booming suburbs, Alcoa let $40 million worth of contracts to expand its aluminum plant. Over the South...
...university had infected Hodges with an urge for public service. He took war leave to head the Office of Price Administration's textile division, spent two postwar hitches (1948, 1950-51) supervising U.S. aid in Germany. In 1952, urged by a business friend, he surprised Tarheel politicians by jumping in, almost unknown, to win the Lieutenant Governor's race. He held office only two years before the Supreme Court handed down its desegregation decision, and soon after, Incumbent Governor William B. Umstead died of a heart attack. Suddenly the tenant farmer's son stood amidst the biggest...
Despite his willingness to let bygones be bygones, De Gaulle had not forgotten that Vichy had once sentenced him to death in absentia. His tolerance clearly did not yet extend to paying an ex-collaborator public honor...
...suite at Manhattan's Statler Hilton Hotel. "You see," he cried, "they are beginning to understand us better." On his two-week U.S. tour, Cuba's gregarious boss drew bales of friendly notices and crushing crowds wherever he showed his beard. "I come to speak to the public opinion," said Castro somewhere in every speech. "I speak the truth...