Word: stassen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rapid changing of tunes last week. Originally, the Wisconsin Senator boldly announced that he had succeeded where the State Department had failed: his investigating subcommittee had "negotiated" an agreement with Greek shipowners to prevent 242 merchant vessels from carrying cargoes to Communist ports. In answer, Mutual Security Director Harold Stassen boldly told McCarthy that he was "undermining" the State Department. Then the rewriting began...
Happy & Not Unhappy. That left the hand-holding to be asked about. Reporters trooped into President Eisenhower's press conference to fire question after question on Dulles' failure to stand behind Stassen. The President was calm. He didn't think that McCarthy was really trying to take over the executive's responsibility for negotiating international agreements. How could McCarthy or anyone negotiate if he had nothing to commit? He didn't think that McCarthy's act, even if it were an error, was serious enough to undermine the State Department's efforts. Perhaps...
This week Mutual Security Director Harold E. Stassen appeared before the McCarthy subcommittee as it began its ship investigations. Before the television cameras, Stassen looked McCarthy squarely in the eye and told him what effect the blockade by subpoena had on U.S. efforts to thwart trade with Communist countries. Said Stassen: "You are in effect undermining and are harmful to our objective...
...Europe, the European Defense Community was stirring itself anew following the seven-nation talking and listening tour by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Mutual Security Director Harold Stassen. The new activity was healthy, and the prospects, while by no means rosy (see INTERNATIONAL), were better than they had been before Dulles' visit...
...years), conservative, family-owned firm which operates elevators, grain trucks, flour and feed mills. As plain as an old shoe in dress, mannerisms, and the way he runs his business, Yale man Heffelfinger has kept largely in the G.O.P. background. But his wife, an early supporter of Harold Stassen, has worked in the G.O.P.'s Minnesota front ranks for more than a decade, has been a member of the national committee since 1948, and was an ardent Eisenhower supporter at last year's G.O.P. convention. One of the Heffelfingers' four daughters, Rosalie, is married to Philip Herman...