Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sold 4,000 copies and earned some $1,500, which was turned over to a Boer relief fund. (This youthful literary effort served Dulles well in 1920 when he asked Columbia Professor Henry Alfred Todd for permission to marry his daughter Clover. Professor Todd, a man with deep respect for erudition, rushed over to the Columbia library to see whether Dulles had published anything, found a card which read "DULLES, Allen W.-The Boer War; A History. Without further research, Professor Todd promptly gave his consent to the marriage...
Room for Improvement. Much of the increased respect with which CIA is now regarded in Washington is directly attributable to Smith and Allen Dulles. But Dulles himself is the first to admit that there is plenty of room for improvement. Relations with the military intelligence services, though better than ever before, are still less than good. (The Navy, which had advance warning of the Batista coup d'état in Cuba last year, failed to pass the word on to CIA.) Because of insufficient filtering and analysis at lower levels, a vast and confusing flood of information is still...
...detaining side" (which means, in effect, that a U.S. or other trusted U.N. officer will watch every Red attempt to cajole the prisoners). The text provides that: "No force or threat of force shall be used . . . and no violence to their persons or affront to their dignity or self-respect shall be permitted ..." The fate of anti-Communist prisoners who refuse to go home will be discussed by a post-truce political conference; if the conference fails to agree on their disposition within 30 days, the prisoners will be transferred to civilian status and helped to go to "neutral nations...
...Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board: Guy Farmer, 41. A hardworking, white-haired labor lawyer, Farmer served as an NLRB lawyer during Franklin Roosevelt's Administration. Later, in private practice, he represented management clients, but kept the respect of labor unions by scrupulously fair courtroom performances...
...poverty, but he had found escape along another road, by burying his nose in books until his eyes dimmed and his skin grew waxen with the pallor of lamplight. Carmine's studies brought him no money, but they helped make him a schoolmaster and a politician, full of respect for the ordered and privileged past and contempt for illiterate successes such as that of Silvio...