Word: reston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reston if he meant to imply that democracy was more difficult to defend than Communism, the President patiently explained: "Look, Mr. Reston, I think you could run into people you have a hard time convincing that the sun is hot and the earth is round . . . Against that kind of belief you run against arguments that almost leave you breathless. You don't know how to meet them...
...common with the New York Times's Chief Washington Correspondent James B. ("Scotty") Reston, who used to be Cox's caddy in Dayton...
...soon after Hollister got down to work, New York Timesman James Reston nominated him to membership in a "4-H Club" within the Administration bent on gutting foreign aid. The other members: Treasury Secretary George Humphrey (soon to resign), onetime Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. (who resigned last winter), onetime Budget Director Rowland Hughes (who resigned last year, died three months ago). But the more hardheaded John Hollister saw of foreign aid the more he appreciated its hard-bitten value, and the less he attempted to cut down functions he once thought he might eliminate. This year...
...James Reston, Washington correspondent of the New York Times. . . Litt.D...
Higher than Jail? If the Supreme Court was in fact trying to tell the U.S. public how it should react toward Fifth Amendment pleaders, then the court had overstepped its legal province to become a social arbiter. While generally approving the decision, Reston's own Times felt bound to point out editorially: "A banker who invokes the Fifth Amendment when charged with embezzlement will scarcely retain the confidence of his depositors. Labor organizations need not continue to support a labor leader who invokes the Fifth Amendment or any other amendment to avoid accounting for union funds...