Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Learning to Make Soap. Time after time. Taft has adroitly recovered fumbles and carried the ball for the White House on Capitol Hill. When Congress and the White House got their signals mixed on the Government Reorganization bill, Taft unscrambled the mess. He skillfully steered through the Senate the nomination of Charles E. Bohlen as Ambassador to Rus sia, although he frankly said he would not have nominated Bohlen. When the resolution condemning Russia for perverting the Yalta and Potsdam agreements got snarled up in confusion, reporters hurried over to ask Taft what he thought. Their jaws dropped in amazement...
...problems and their handicaps. Said he: "It's like taking the twelve top executives of Procter & Gamble and wiping them out. Then you put in the twelve top men of A. T. & T. The telephone men are good executives, but they don't know how to make soap. If these men can understand what they're doing in their own departments in twelve months, I think they're doing pretty well...
...Russian newspaper readers, Madame Molotov's attempt to make soap from frog fat was a surefire joke. So was her 1936 visit (as Olga Karpovskaya) to New York and Washington, where she lunched with Eleanor Roosevelt and announced that Soviet men had gone back to using toilet water. The Pearl was soon promoted to the Ministry of Food Industry, Division of Fish. Years later, having thoroughly proved her incompetence, she was fired by a rising young party boss named Georgy Malenkov. "The crux of the matter," Stalin is said to have remarked, "is that too many fish are swimming...
...Soap-Dish Detail. Elder Benson, as he is known to fellow Mormons, settled down to the life of an Apostle in a ten-room Devonshire-Norman-Spanish house in Salt Lake City. Like many good Mormons, the Bensons set aside one night a week to be spent with their six children (the eldest, Reed A., 24, is now an Air Force chaplain). Such "family nights" are always opened with a prayer and a reading from the Scriptures; then Benson flicks on the family jukebox for some spirited dancing with his four daughters...
...committee is appointed to hand down a ruling. How much time can be spent watching TV? Another committee decision. Mrs. Benson hands out work assignments according to ability: a few years back, one Benson tyke, too small for any other job, was given responsibility for keeping the soap dish clean. Like all good Mormons, the Bensons neither smoke nor drink alcohol. They take no coffee or tea, eat meat sparingly...