Word: states
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article on Rabbi Teitelbaum and the Hasidic community reeks of cynicism, pro-Israelism, snobbishness and disrespect. I do not necessarily agree with the rabbi or his religious beliefs, but I am glad to see someone raise his voice against the state of Israel. Before this time, anyone who criticized the state of Israel was thought to be antiSemitic. No one, obviously, can accuse Rabbi Teitelbaum of that fault...
Political Assets. In Frankfort, Ky., after winning the Republican primary for state attorney general, Samuel S. Cannon reported his campaign costs: $2 for a photograph, 50? for stamps...
Windfall. In Hartford, Conn., after stirring up a row when he announced that police would use unmarked cars to catch speeders, State Police Commissioner Leo J. Mulcahy felt vindicated when someone slashed the tires of eleven well-marked patrol cars outside the police barracks...
...STAGGERING CHANGE IN EISENHOWER, the staggered London Daily Mail reported: "The sick man leaning away from leadership has become the keen-eyed, confident head of state ready to cope with anything." The Manchester Guardian was almost mystic in its praise: "Something deeper and nobler than a passion for a political prize now guides the President's conduct...
...since he left Princeton ('27), is described by Founder Will Clayton, his father-in-law, as having "the quickest mind and greatest curiosity of anyone I've encountered." The shift marks a return to power of courtly, fiercely competitive Will Clayton, 79, onetime U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, who retired as chairman of Anderson, Clayton in 1950-only to see sales start to move down. They skidded from $1,068,000,000 in 1951 to $792 million in fiscal 1958. Clayton, still the biggest stockholder (he and his family own 40% worth $52 million), tangled with President Whittington...