Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Amendment) from running again. Having earnestly tried to stand above party, he made one of his rare ventures into partisan politics last fall-and the Republicans lost 13 seats in the Senate, 47 in the House. The specter of that defeat peered over his shoulder last week as he spoke to Congressmen who had already weighed the political factors and decided to go their own ways, without particular reference to the desires of Dwight Eisenhower. Items...
Sputnik-dominated 1958, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson made his own speech two days before the President's, at the Senate Democratic caucus. Like President Eisenhower, he spoke of fiscal responsibility-but unlike the President, he could afford the luxury of advocating economy in principle and spending in practice. "Fiscal solvency concerns us all," said Lyndon Johnson. "It is a first concern, for no course is honest without the courage of financial prudence. But we cannot afford to bankrupt the national conscience to serve the ends of political bookkeeping." He assured the U.S. that he and his party stood ready...
...Castro got a warm abrazo from his hand-picked President, Manuel Urrutia. "I never did like this palace," Castro told the crowd, "and I know you do not either, but maybe the new government will change our feel ings." Later, at Camp Columbia, where 30,000 people waited, he spoke in his high-pitched voice, promising "peace with liberty, peace with justice, peace with individual rights." A white dove flew up from the crowd and settled on Fidel's right shoulder. After two nights of almost no sleep, he bedded down in the Continental Suite of the Havana Hilton...
...Joanovici became "a state within a state." His payroll included Vichy officials, Gestapo agents, profiteers, speculators, fences, gangsters. He once explained the niceties of his profession: "I had lunch with the Vichy official whose job it was to see that all businesses were run by Aryans. He noticed I spoke with an accent and asked me where I was born. I told him I would like to give him money regularly, as a contribution to the Red Cross...
...golden-studded white screen. Then came the inspection of the air-conditioned offices with their doors of teak, the elaborate servants' quarters, the great aluminum shade through which the sunlight filters into dappled patterns below. "I was enchanted.'' said the Prime Minister, and the Indian newspapers spoke glowingly of "a dreamlike, haunting beauty and an atmosphere of romance.'' With that, the new, $2,400,000 U.S. embassy in New Delhi was finally open to the public and ready for business...