Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warped Record. McElroy had not backed down on any substantive point in the plan. Still, from the influential New York Times (see PRESS) came the kind of front-page headline and story that sends the Administration scurrying to set the record straight. M'ELROY ACCEPTS MAJOR
...labor hearings, with the extra promise that additional labor-regulation bills will hit the floor by mid-June. The Johnson coalition held firm, voted down Knowland's amendments, but Knowland had won a victory for labor regulation by guaranteeing that the Senate will have to go on record this session on harder-hitting bills than a routine pension and welfare bill...
...President's power to overrule Tariff Commission recommendations in the interests of U.S. trade as a whole. ¶Packing for a South American tour, Vice President Nixon nevertheless took time out to provide chow, chat and charm for some of his most consistent critics. To an off-record evening at his home in suburban Wesley Heights, Nixon invited a dozen British Washington correspondents who have given the readers at home a general picture of Nixon as a cross between a slick operator and an unprincipled opportunist. Nixon ducked no questions except those that implied criticism of the President...
...chief. But Communist membership is down from 2,500,000 to 1,700,000; one-fourth of the party's Senators and Deputies have been dropped as unsuitable candidates for reelection; the Communists are having a hard time finding vote-winning issues in an Italy basking in a record national prosperity; and they no longer have the flashing oratory of Palmiro Togliatti, who once knew all the answers...
Lleras' qualifications for the job are already on record. An able, respected journalist, he became Colombia's "boy wonder" Minister of the Interior (Premier) at 29, stepped up to the presidency ten years later. He served as head of the creaky old Pan American Union after World War II, created the efficient, effective Organization of American States, then was named president of Bogotá's University of the Andes. Two years ago he resigned the university job to lead the opposition to Dictator Rojas. Before his own acceptance last week, Lleras had ruefully spelled out the qualifications...