Word: soft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about 25,000 Hungarians admitted to the U.S. as parolees. Warned Ike last week: "We have about exhausted the possibilities of the parolee method, and without some congressional action, we will certainly be handicapped." But on the mechanics of obtaining faster congressional action, the President mustered only a soft promise: "I certainly do hope, and I will try to do my most, the best I can, to see that it does get up in this Congress...
Play Ball. Soft words last week also met seven U.S. mayors who marched into the White House in the company of Housing and Home Finance Administrator Albert M. Cole. The mayors had a simple demand that typified Ike's budget problems, i.e., they wanted the President not only to fight for the $75 million in federal slum-clearance funds that Cole voluntarily cut from his budget but to release a $100 million housing reserve fund as well. Ike praised the mayors' announcement that cities were spending $10 for every $2 in federal aid. At the same time...
...filled in. One gap was soon pointed out by Export-Import Bank President Samuel C. Waugh. Would the fund's easy terms undermine the businesslike hard loans that both the Export-Import Bank and World Bank are trying to make the basis for sound international development? "Soft" loans, Waugh told the Senate committee, could "imperil the status of any loans made on a strictly banking basis." Also missing from the plan was any proposal for legislation to encourage private investment abroad...
Scott McLeod's job was an ugly, thankless one to begin with, and he was bound to stir up enemies. As Dulles' top security officer, it was his duty to rid the department of the soft-on-Communism reputation that had built up during the Acheson regime. But by plunging in with McCarthy-like zeal, McLeod alienated good guys and bad guys alike. Moreover, he seemed to be in some initial doubt about whether his primary loyalty was to Secretary Dulles or to State's critics in Congress. The matter came to a head when McLeod, going...
...Magnificat were generally of high quality. The vocal soloists, Lee Calder, Dorothy Crawford, Sarah Jane Smith, Thomas Beveridge, and Karl Sorensen all gave musicianly readings of the arias, duet, and trio. At times there was not sufficient balance between soloist and orchestra, as often the result of too soft singing as too loud playing. Dorothy Crawford, in particular, could not seem to muster enough volume. There were also instances of imbalance between chorus and orchestra, caused mainly by the great army of tenors and basses that filled the stage...