Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...segments of the labor movement as protection for power-hungry and corrupt leaders of top-dog labor. Moreover, labor's leaders, having won their economic battle, failed to work out a philosophy going beyond oldtime A.F.L. President Samuel Gompers' antiquated one-word creed: "More." Armed with special privileges written into law, labor kept pushing for more "more," often at the expense of the economy's stability and orderly growth...
...last week the President drove to Walter Reed Army Hospital to attend the swearing-in of Foster Dulles as a new $20,000-a-year special consultant to the President with full Cabinet rank. Because Dulles tires easily, the small group at the ceremony-Ike, Dulles, Nixon, Herter, Janet Dulles and a few others-sat down while the President read to Dulles this citation: "Your willingness to continue to contribute your abundant talents and unique experience to the service of the U.S. and the free world is but one more example of your magnificent spirit and devotion to the nation...
...interlopers between the President and the Secretary of State." It struck one who was there that Dulles was recalling how his uncle, Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State Robert Lansing, had been short-circuited by Wilson's reliance upon his close adviser, Colonel Edward M. House. Then Special Consultant Dulles assured Secretary of State Herter that he, Dulles, would never get in the way. Said he: "I have never wanted to be an interloper, and I don't intend to become...
...scarcely had time to sing a second chorus of postvacation blues: he was too busy. Though he ducked a press conference, he presided over meetings of Republican congressional leaders, the National Security Council and the Cabinet, as well as over the swearing-in of Secretary of State Herter and Special Consultant John Foster Dulles. He also opened a new chapter in his drive for a balanced budget by briefly taking advantage of the public-opinion spotlight focused on the I.C.C. meeting and on a meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers...
...panic. Instead it plotted minimum but legal compliance, went on to more important business-and in so doing soon put the crisis in reasonable perspective. Part of the credit was due to Governor Hodges and his sharp eye for business; part of it was due to the special heritage of the state that produced both Hodges and the kind of climate that he could operate...