Word: shermans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amazed no one has nominated Sherman Adams as 1958's most maligned...
...Park, two "For Sale" signs were spiked forlornly in the lawn. Inside, curious house seekers noted the scarred plaster, peeling paint, grotesquely overstuffed furniture, shabby, faded Oriental rug that had been replaced by a shiny new one during much of the stay of the previous tenant, former Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams...
...dispirited, drifting Administration. That impression first took real form back in 1957, when Ike hemmed, hawed and refused to crack down on Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's forecasts of a hair-curling depression. It persisted in 1958, when the President delayed for months getting rid of Sherman Adams because "I need him." Again, even while Ike fought wisely and successfully at bringing the U.S. out of recession without pushing the panic button, he failed to dramatize the achievement...
...DENVER POST: OUR view is that millions of people were shaken by Republican doubletalk over the budget two years ago, the U.S. lag in missiles and the race for outer space, the incredible confusion over civil defense, the Sherman Adams case, Little Rock, and the antics of John Foster Dulles. It all adds up to weak, distracted and irrationalized leadership...
...sweeping civil consent decree in one of the biggest Eisenhower Administration Sherman Act suits to date, RCA agreed to 1) put some 100 color TV patents into a royalty-free pool, 2) make available to all comers on a royalty-free basis at least 12,000 other existing radio-TV patents, 3) license all new patents during 'the next ten years at a "reasonable" royalty rate. The Justice Department also won a criminal case against RCA. U.S. District Court Judge John F. X. McGohey in Manhattan fined RCA $100,000 when the company pleaded nolo contendere toa four-count...