Word: takings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policy performance during the Eisenhower years. "We have seemed too often to lack coherent and continuing purpose. Rather, we have relied on sporadic responses to sudden needs and crises . . . Perhaps we have been dreaming that words could be substituted for deeds, problems be patched up with slogans, abstract proclamations take the place of concrete and creative policies. We cannot continue thus...
Farm Policy: In Minneapolis, Rockefeller became the first presidential hopeful in either party to take firm hold of the sharp-thorned fact that in the U.S. today too many people are trying to make a living as farmers. To help low-income farm families escape into other livelihoods, and at the same time to ease the problems of surpluses. Rockefeller proposed a long-term "land-use program" similar to what the Committee for Economic Development advocated two years ago (TIME, Dec. 23, 1957). Under this program, the Federal Government would rent entire farms for long periods, take the land...
...Interest: He would, if elected President, get rid of "any securities that would involve a conflict of interest." But the whole question of conflict of interest in Government jobs cannot be solved by a simple selling of securities, and should be reviewed. "The only place that these conflicts really take place is inside. It's one's integrity that cuts you off from any other responsibilities other than to serve the people...
...Moss Hart. Playwright (You Can't Take It with You) and Director (My Fair Lady) Hart tells of his youthful trek from The Bronx to Broadway. Few memoirs, theatrical or otherwise, can equal this autobiography's suspenseful plot, zany supporting cast and surefire humor...
...Take Me Along. Although this musical version of Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! does not dazzle the senses, it leaves a generally pleasant, nostalgic aftertaste. With Jackie Gleason...