Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where the Issue Stands. When the Bricker Resolution popped up in the 83rd Congress, Dwight Eisenhower and his Cabinet took a hard look at it and decided to fight it. Secretary Dulles and other Eisenhower officials last April rode up to Capitol Hill to appear before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee. Crux of their arguments: this is no time to throw a monkey wrench into the country's foreign-relations machinery. There is no need for safeguards against such treaties as the Human Rights Covenant, said Dulles, because the Administration does "not intend to become a party to any such...
Next day 5,000 troops guarded the streets of Belfast as Her Majesty rode to the Hall of Parliament to hear an ancient and loyal address. As she walked in the sunny gardens of Queen's University, a second explosion came-this time in broad daylight at the city power station, about a mile away...
...imparted to it the dignity of his own character. He refused to shake hands during his eight years in the office-he felt that such a gesture of familiarity was beneath the presidency-and always bowed instead. He dressed richly in velvet, wore hats plumed with ostrich feathers, rode in a six-horse coach with liveried lackeys and outriders, felt himself the equal of any king on earth, but always thought of himself as the "Most Obed. Hble Serv.t" of the U.S. people, who, decade after decade, have borne the stamp of his character...
...suite at Washington's Mayflower Hotel, old Truman aides gathered around. The old ghostwriters, headed by Washington Lawyer Charles Murphy, went to work on a speech. As the visitor rode down the street one day, he spotted an old friend. It took several honks of the horn to get the man's eye, and then ex-President Harry Truman said to ex-Secretary of State Dean Acheson: "You're the hardest pickup I ever encountered...
...Benson rolled out of Lubbock in a blue Cadillac, rode over roads that had been plowed clear of drifted dust. He gazed at the parched earth, ran some of it through his fingers, then went into conferences with farmers and ranchers. At week's end Benson said he would recommend that the Government do everything it can to give the drought-stricken southwesterners what they want: 1) emergency feed supplies at reasonable cost, 2) a Government buying program to take distress cattle off the market, and 3) emergency, long-term credit...