Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the President made an emphatic bid for tariff revision, Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson tested Ike's determination to be bipartisan. Referring to Ike's backing down on his program last spring, even though the Democrats supported it, Johnson asked if they would "find the program pulled out from under us some fine morning...
Last week two Eisenhower Administration officials got new jobs: ¶ Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, 46, became the President's special assistant in the field of foreign policy, succeeding C. D. Jackson, who resigned last spring to resume his vice-presidency of Time, Inc., and is now serving as U.S. representative to the U.N. Rockefeller will attend meetings of the Cabinet, the National Security Council, the Council on Foreign Economic Policy and the Operations Coordinating Board (the Government's nerve center for propaganda activities). The new high-level brain-truster has long followed...
Until last spring, Gen. Eisenhower was on the way to being as unsuccessful a President as was Gen. Grant. Like Gen. Grant, he was bewildered and helpless m dealing with a government that was usurping his powers. He was retreating before McCarthy. He was failing to defend the executive branch of the government and to uphold the integrity of his personnel. The tide began to turn when the Army, to be sure with his rather gingerly support, turned on McCarthy and fought back on the question of who was to run the Army. And this was followed by the President...
Shock Treatment. The plot began to unfold last spring when Braden bought a ranch-style house in a quiet, all-white suburban section outside Louisville, then transferred title to Andrew Wade, a Negro electrical contractor. In Louisville, where the hard lines of segregation are disappearing slowly, Braden's Communist-style "shock treatment" brought the expected results. First a flaming cross was burned on a lot adjoining Wade's property, then a volley of shots was fired into the house. Finally a bomb exploded...
There was little doubt that Pat McGinnis would receive many complaints; his practices had not lived up to many of his promises during the proxy fight last spring with Boston's Frederic C. ("Buck") Dumaine. McGinnis had promised more express trains, longer loading platforms, bigger parking lots for commuters along the road. So far, the only noticeable improvements were two enlarged parking lots...