Word: robert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issues-but attributing the news only to a "high authority." Word soon spread that the President had given a small stag dinner for regular White House correspondents-the first for the press that he had ever held at his house. Present were Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, Press Secretary James Hagerty, and 13 newsmen-those, as Ike told the news conference, "who have covered me wherever I've gone, day in, day out ... on good trips, bad trips or anything else ... I wanted to show them a courtesy...
...Robert Hamer's restrained direction and Paul Beeson's camera work are fine. The film's only major fault is the screenplay, written by Hamer from an adaptation by Gore Vidal. It's a pity Vidal wasn't allowed to do the whole job. Hamer's script leaves a number of loose ends and unclear motivations; and the denouement is both trite and inexcusably abrupt. But the picture is worth seeing for its performances...
...depends mainly on how long stockpiles hold out. They now bulge at more than 21 million tons, a two-month supply, and the nonstruck 15% of the industry is adding to them at top-speed rate of 1,200,000 tons a month. Speaking for many an industrialist, Chairman Robert Black of White Motor Co. said: "We began preparing for this strike six or seven months ago. We've got a 60-to 90-day steel stock. But you never know-one missing item can stop your production. For want of a nail, a battle can be lost...
...part of his unofficial diplomatic career, Capitalist Winston has been tapped by Mayor Robert Wagner to act as New York City's High Commissioner at trade fairs in Poznan, Zagreb, Vienna, Paris. The U.S. Department of Commerce took Winston on as special adviser for trade fairs, and last year Winston was U.S. Special Delegate to the UNESCO General Conference in Paris...
...first chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. (1932), first president of the World Bank (1946); in Washington. At 57, Meyer capped a successful career as a financier by buying the bankrupt Post (1933 daily circulation: 62,000), over the years strengthened editorial policy, bought (1954) from Colonel Robert R. McCormick the Post's biggest Washington rival and political antithesis, the Times-Herald, boosted the daily circulation of the combined papers...