Word: stassenism
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...remaining nine, he said, four unpassed bills were "absolutely vital": school construction, the health bill, the highway program and the water-resources bill. He planned, said Ike, to push these measures very emphatically as soon as Congress reconvenes. ¶Administered the oath of office to Harold E. Stassen as United States Deputy Representative on the United Nations Disarmament Commission. It was Stassen's fourth oath-taking since the Eisenhower Administration took office (Mutual Security Administrator, F.O.A. Administrator, Special Assistant to the President for disarmament): "It seems I am always swearing you in," commented the President after the ceremony...
...parley will fly some 150 delegates from the U.S.: President Eisenhower (in the Columbine late this week), Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, such European specialists as the State Department's Livingston Merchant and Douglas MacArthur II (nephew of the general), such "unofficial delegates" as Presidential Advisers Harold Stassen and Nelson Rockefeller, backstopped by Filipino mess-boys from the White House...
Last week the U.S. got some more solid documentation for its thesis: the latest report of Foreign Operations Administrator Stassen disclosed that exports of grain to the West from the grain-rich Communist "breadbasket of Europe" fell off from 2,875,000 tons to 1,256,000 tons between 1952 and 1954, and that during the hungry fall of 1954 the Communists were compelled to import grain from the West...
...Brownell, Ike made it clear that it was not necessarily binding or exclusive. The list: 1) Richard Nixon, 2) Henry Cabot Lodge, 3) Governor Dan Thornton of Colorado, 4) Governor Arthur Langlie of Washington, 5) New Jersey's Alfred E. Driscoll, 6) Senator William Knowland, 7) Harold Stassen. With the list in hand, Brownell hurried over to Eisenhower headquarters on the eleventh floor of the Conrad Hilton Hotel and called a meeting of some 30 top Ikemen. Among those attending: Tom Dewey, Lucius Clay, Arthur Summerfield (then G.O.P. National Chairman), Henry Cabot and John Davis Lodge, Maryland...
...elder Hoover after World War I, helped him dispense relief in Poland and Lithuania. After World War II, Hollister served briefly with UNRRA. But to many foreign-aid supporters, the Hollister appointment sounded off key, not at all in harmony with Predecessors Paul Hoffman, Averell Harriman and Harold Stassen. Some of Stassen's top aides muttered that they would quit rather than work under Hollister. The Washington Post expressed "misgivings" based on 1) reports that a Hoover Commission task force will propose to atomize the foreign-aid setup, scattering the fragments among various departments, and 2) Hollister...