Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Johnson (see below), defied tradition by not only refusing to restore House cuts but cutting even deeper. (One surprising victim: J. Edgar Hoover's almost sacrosanct Federal Bureau of Investigation, clipped some $150,000.) And with the Republican leadership sitting back in amused tolerance, Johnson & Co. turned with special glee on the President's pet program for fighting the propaganda war against Communism, the U.S. Information Agency. The Senate not only accepted the House's $38 million cut in USIA's $144 million request (which Ike publicly called "the worst kind of economy"), but whacked...
...Eisenhower Republicans who are fighting for his program, Ike left his hard-pressed Capitol Hill defenders sadly disappointed: "I don't see how it is possible for any President to work with . . . the whole Republican group except through their elected leadership. This doesn't mean that in special cases and for special purposes you don't." Did he intend to "punish" the leaders who are attacking his program and "reward" those who support it? Snapped Ike: "I don't think it is the function of the President of the U.S. to punish anybody for voting what...
...Special Justice. It will not occur if John McClellan can prevent it. To the job of preventing it he brings much more than his scowl and his voice; they are merely the sight and the sound of the controlled strength that makes McClellan one of the most respected members of the U.S. Senate and its top investigator. Into the arena of congressional investigation, where many a congressional head has been turned by headlines and TV time, McClellan brings a special kind of justice. It is the personal code of a man who has had to learn the hard...
...minimum age for admission to the Arkansas bar was 21, but Ike wangled special legislative permission for John to take the required oral test at 17. John scored a 90, 15 points above passing, and became the youngest lawyer in Arkansas...
...these permits a student on probation to continue to hold a scholarship if approved by a special vote of the Admissions and Scholarship Committee...