Word: takings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case like the steel strike, it is very pleasant to assume a lofty attitude and say a plague on both your houses. Unfortunately, the issues are national in scope and nobody has the right not to take a stand on them. And you cannot be against inflation and featherbedding and then fail to support the companies if their position is based on opposition to these things...
...intend to cut out foreign aid where it was needed, nor to retreat into "Buy American" protectionism, nor to cut dangerously its overseas military forces. But it might have to do all these things if such industrially strong nations as West Germany, Britain and Japan did not take over part of the aid to underdeveloped nations, drop trade barriers and get on with the business of working out a long-range program of stable free trade for the world...
After little more than a year as Navy Secretary, Anderson stepped up to the Defense Department's No. 2 post. Deputy Defense Secretary. In mid-1955 he left the Administration to take over as president of Ventures, Ltd., a Canadian holding company with worldwide mining interests. When Treasury Secretary George Humphrey decided to go back to the steel business, he persuaded Anderson to return to Washington to succeed him. In mid-July 1957, outgoing Secretary Humphrey took incoming Secretary Anderson to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to see the first dollar bills coming off the presses with Anderson...
Hours after Mathematical Physicist Charles Critchfield, 49, agreed to take over as boss of the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency (TIME, Nov. 16), he became the target for salvo after salvo of editorial and political criticism. Nobody seemed to doubt that he might be a good man to help straighten out the U.S.'s missile mess, but many were worried over how and by whom he would be paid while on the job. Reason: at Defense Secretary Neil McElroy's urging, Critchfield was to be a "WOC," serve "without compensation" from the U.S. and keep...
...student rally which welcomed him to Providence Airport yesterday, Rockefeller commented, "Any student who enjoys the advantages and human dignity of living in this great country should be glad to take an oath which shows his belief in its principles...