Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have to do," explained the President at his press conference, "he has in some measure to do." Adams must also settle disputes among top-level officials. "The Governor," says a White House staffer, "is the only man around here with stature enough to say no and make it stick. Every time I say no to a Senator, he says the hell with it and goes to Adams. When Adams says no, it does not get appealed...
Thus the storm lashed on. It tore through the editorial pages of newspapers all over the country, and it drenched not merely Sherman Adams for his imprudence-or notorious breach of good conduct-but President Eisenhower for his failure to stick to his own oft-proclaimed deep sense of public ethics. The editors, pundits and politicians knew much to admire about Sherman Adams-his efficiency, his devotion to the President, his importance to the working of the Government. But they could see and hear clearly that, to accommodate Sherman Adams and Bernard Goldfine, the Eisenhower Administration had compromised a basic...
...great Joseph Pulitzer had been dead for nine years, the World was still shaped to his image: cocky, crusading, colorful. Swope and the World were well matched. A solid six-footer with a thatch of red hair, Swope stalked grandly through the city room swinging his massive walking stick, peering at his staffers through a tiny pince-nez, and driving home his dictum: "Pick out the best story of the day and then hammer the living hell...
...Administration's previous attitude toward freeloading by high officials?" Hagerty: "I don't know what you mean by that . . . This is a personal friend, if that's what you're talking about." Reporter: "It's all right for a personal friend?" Hagerty: "I stick with the letter that the Governor issued. The facts as they...
AUTO PRICING BILL, passed by Senate to require carmakers to stick a "suggested" retail price on each car delivered (TIME, May 19), is being bucked belatedly by Justice Department. Trustbusters contend that bill might actually tend to fix prices, would not give buyer sufficient protection...