Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little before 7:30 the next morning, Eisenhower and a few of his aides clambered into an American Airlines DC-6. First stop in Texas was Denison (pop. 18,000), where Ike rode slowly down the main street in a green Chrysler convertible through crowds that pushed out to shake his hand. In the town's East Side, just across the Missouri-Kansas-Texas R.R. tracks, the motorcade stopped before a cheap, two-story, white clapboard house, whose front gate bears the sign "Eisenhower's Birthplace." At Forest Park, he made a brief, nostalgic talk about his homecoming...
...could never have defeated the forces of fascism in World War II if our economic vitality had not been restored by the New Deal." On the Taft-Eisenhower promises to cut spending, he said: "You can't have low taxes and security." At Salt Lake City, he rode in a jolting buckboard escorted by 40 cowboys and Ute Indians, who later made him a chief. Said Chief Averell: "Nicest time I've had since becoming a candidate...
...Good Old Harry." At that point, Harry Truman, who had seized the industry earlier only to have the Supreme Court rule that he had no power to do so, stepped into the picture again. He rode up to Capitol Hill, asked Congress for seizure power. An injunction under the Taft-Hartley law, said Truman, would be unfair to the workers. After they had already worked more than 150 days without a contract, it would force them to work 80 days more without a raise. In Pittsburgh, Steelworker Tom Zema glowed: "Good old Harry. He talks like...
...cool eye for business, was a great help. When Ike was getting ready to start out on one of his handshaking tours Mamie told him: "Tell the girls-I mean the ladies-to come on back here and I'll talk to them." A man from Missouri rode up to the sixth floor of the Sunflower to report proudly that Missouri probably would go 22 for Ike and four for Taft. Said Mamie: "What's the matter with those four? Let's work on them...
...three cases, it didn't). Sharp at 11 a.m., as the two-toned chimes of the Horse Guards' clock echoed through Downing Street, a slim, girlish figure in the cockaded tricorn, scarlet tunic and blue serge skirt of the colonel in chief of the Brigade of Guards, rode on to the parade ground, sitting sidesaddle on a 13-year-old chestnut named Winston. Elizabeth II waved a white-gloved hand to her mother, watching from an upstairs window, then took her place before the towering guardsmen. She was the first British queen since Elizabeth...