Word: put
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator Dodd put in just a few short words the real feeling of the American people, and also he has in a way shown us how to accept Khrushchev's arrival. The one thing the American people should avoid is mass cheers and greetings...
...Decisive." Next morning Ike and Adenauer entered into their "formal" talks; actually, they were warmly informal. The U.S. President and the West German Chancellor kept interrupting one another like old friends. Ike was hugely amused when he put on the earphones over which simultaneous translations were to be made, and got only static; West German Ambassador to U.S. Wilhelm Grewe had dripped fruit juice onto the wiring, causing a short circuit. Eisenhower more than satisfied Adenauer that he was not about to bargain away West Germany's rights in his talks with Khrushchev, that he meant rather to convince...
...royal family in a drawing room for a final chat, then with Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip, Prince Charles and Princess Anne, walked out of the castle onto the closely cropped lawn. As a group of reporters and photographers (admitted to the grounds under a pool arrangement) approached, Ike put his hand on Princess Anne's blonde head. Asked he: "Are you going to learn to cook?" The Queen answered for her daughter: "I'll send you some samples...
...what really shattered Mills's prestige was the inept performance of the Ways & Means Committee so far this year. Mills failed to get committee backing for his own proposals for revising the tax laws on cooperatives, depletion allowances and overseas investments, had to put them aside until next year. It took the committee months of floundering to settle on a measure to finance highway construction. Faced with President Eisenhower's request for removal of interest-rate ceilings on long-term Treasury bonds. Mills proposed three different solutions. failed to muster adequate support for any of them, wearily gave...
...rose to 3.4%, the highest since the fall of 1957; it may go up to 4%. What the Treasury fears most is that its dependence on short-term financing will force yields on short-term paper above yields on long-term bonds, thus attracting many investors who might ordinarily put their money in long-term securities and forcing rates up even higher. Such a development during the next year would put Secretary of the Treasury Robert B. Anderson in the worst position of any Treasury Secretary since the 1920s in maintaining a market for Government securities. The committee...