Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sinclair Weeks '14, Secretary of Commerce, last night defended the 1958 budget of the Eisenhower administration "in the main," while acknowledging that in some areas "we're probably spending too much money...
...with the Derby. Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks began his week by faring forth to battle the budget cutters. Weeks practically dared the House to trim more than $50 million from his budget. Result: the House lopped off $217 million, a whopping 25%. President Eisenhower wrote the House Appropriations Committee expressing "deep concern" about proposed cuts in funds for the U.S. Information Agency. Result: the committee cut USIA by $37.9 million, or 26%. Hardly pausing for breath, it knocked $47.3 million, or 21%, from State Department budget requests. Army Secretary Wilber Brucker invited a group of Congressmen to witness at Army...
...Administration's programs under fire. Throughout the Administration the budget uproar came to be called "the Humphrey flap." Typical remark at Cabinet meetings: "George, you see what you cost me in the House this week?" The most outspoken of Humphrey's Cabinet critics was Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, whose New England sense of thrift is every bit as sharp as that of Midwesterner Humphrey...
...barracks somewhere in Scotland's dour landscape, a battalion of Highlanders is waging a pretty grim peace under the command of Colonel Jock Sinclair...
Although all agreed on Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Woodrow Wilson, and Henry Ford, each professor had separate candidates for the last two positions in the line-up. Professor Schlesinger supported Theodore Roosevelt '81 and Sinclair Lewis against Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Luce, and John Dewey...