Word: roles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York's First Boston Corp., a Dixon-Yates financing agent, and 2) a Budget Bureau consultant on the contract. Then Attorney General Herbert Brownell went on to rule that Dixon-Yates investors were not even entitled to payment for costs already incurred, because Wen-zell's dual role made the contract invalid. The Dixon-Yates utility firms went to court to recover the costs...
...ruling that the U.S. Government owed Dixon-Yates investors $1,867,545, the Court of Claims dismissed as "cynical'' the Administration contention that Wenzell's role invalidated the contract. Argued the court in a 3-to-2 decision: the Budget Bureau, aware that Wenzell was a First Boston officer, employed him to expedite the contract to further the Administration policy of fostering private rather than public power. That policy, held the court, was "perfectly legitimate." Argued the two dissenting judges: Wenzell's dual role involved a conflict of interest that violated "dominant public policy...
Vindication of Dixon-Yates came just four weeks too late to help Lewis L. Strauss in his unsuccessful battle to win Senate confirmation as Secretary of Commerce. During the prolonged Strauss hearings (TIME, June 15 et seq.), Democrats made much of his role as AEC chairman in working out the Dixon-Yates contract, used it against him in the fight that led to the first turndown (49-46) of a presidential Cabinet nomination since the days of Teapot Dome...
Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, the only formally declared candidate for the presidency,* has a problem. His campaign managers have carefully written a moderate's role for him. on the reasonable theory that it will be popular with the voters. But whenever Humphrey takes the speaker's stand, he invariably throws the script away and becomes a wildcat liberal, promising the world to his listeners. "And the people in front of him just don't want the world right now," explains a worried Humphrey advocate. In his offstage moments, Humphrey himself senses the public...
...Democrats have all but come to the end of the line on the New Deal-born issues that have served them for a quarter-century. And as at no other time since F.D.R.'s day, the best intellects of the Democratic Party are searching for a meaningful role for liberalism in a prospering...