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...campaigns, two unsuccessful campaigns for President, and, early in 1952, was part of the tough, experienced political organization that Dewey set to working for Dwight Eisenhower. Hagerty thumped the tub for Ike throughout the preconvention campaign and the general election. The day after Eisenhower's inauguration, Hagerty was sworn in as White House press secretary. The President discovered early in the game that he was hiring no sycophantic flack: Hagerty got stubborn about some since-forgotten point of press policy, and the Eisenhower temper flashed. After several minutes of colorful language, Ike paused for breath, regarded the uncowed Hagerty...
After being sworn in, Curry asked the Council for its cooperation during his two-year term. He said that "operation on many fronts simultaneously" would henceforth be necessary, particularly for an effective Urban Renewal program...
Indonesia last week had two Presidents. One was Parliament Speaker Sartono, who was sworn in as Acting President before a heavily guarded convocation of Djakarta dignitaries, and the other was President Sukarno himself, who kept saying he was going off to India for a rest cure, though he seemed more interested in hanging around to see how the Acting President would make...
Against that dare stands NATO, with its 15 nations and its 500 million people, whose per capita industrial productivity is about three times that of the Soviet Union. For NATO, with all its material and moral resources, to give way before a power long-sworn to world conquest would be unthinkable. Freedom has not failed NATO, and NATO, by striving and sacrifice, must not fail freedom...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15--Dr. James R. Killian Jr., president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was sworn in this morning as President Eisenhower's scientific military coordinator...