Word: strausses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...success suitable to a Commerce Secretary, and furthermore he was soon to become Commerce Secretary. After nearly six years in the post, "Sinny" Weeks, 65, had decided to step down, and, to replace him, President Eisenhower had tabbed longtime (1953 to last June) Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss...
Like Weeks, Lewis Strauss, 62, is a millionaire, but his origins were radically different. Weeks was born to money and status, went to Harvard. Brainy, West Virginia-born Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss (pronounced straws) never went to college, started out as a traveling shoe salesman. As secretary to Food Administrator Herbert Hoover during World War I, Strauss noted with satisfaction last week that as Commerce Secretary he will be serving in a post once held by his onetime boss and longtime friend...
Between World Wars, Strauss prospered in the Wall Street investment banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Named an AECommissioner by Harry Truman in 1946 after serving as a deskbound rear admiral in World War II, he won a reputation for independent hardheadedness by pushing for an H-bomb program in 1949 against the combined opposition of his fellow AECommissioners and the physicists of the General Advisory Committee. Strauss won that bitter fight (with invaluable help from Physicist Edward Teller) just in time to keep the Soviet Union from gaining an H-bomb monopoly. After 1953, as Eisenhower's AEChairman...
Wounded by the barbs of controversy, sensitive Lewis Strauss vowed never to accept another Government post once he stepped down as AEChairman. Big reasons why he took on the Commerce job despite that vow: 1) a conviction that much can be done on the international economic front to help the West win the cold war and 2) a desire to overcome his reputation as a man of war and big bombs -a reputation that devoutly religious Lewis Strauss thoroughly detests...
...note of the unusually receptive response from the audience as an indication that listeners are looking for something other than letter-perfect but perfunctory performances of works that can be handled easily by each last-desk player. This is not to say that the orchestra should schedule an all-Strauss program for its next concert, but that a performance which is enjoyable and interesting to the musicians will give much more pleasure to the audience as well...