Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier by constitutional vote (see FOREIGN NEWS). In Washington President Eisenhower, after an uneasy week, took what amounted to a major U.S. policy decision. He told his staff that he would be "very interested" in meeting De Gaulle at the right time in Washington or some place else to talk things over...
...Hell's fire." said Dwight D. Eisenhower as he shook the hand of Colonel Keith Ware, who once commanded 1st Battalion. 15th Infantry Regiment. "I used to command that outfit myself." The President was trading service talk about the ist Battalion, 15th Infantry and about other outfits with each of 216 Medal of Honor holders, who came to see him in the White House's rose garden on Memorial Day before they all went out to the burial of the unknown servicemen from World War II and Korea. Meeting an aging vet from the Philippine Scouts, he said...
...concert at the Academy of Music, he escaped through a shrieking crowd that tore the handles from the doors of his limousine. In Washington, before his concert at Constitution Hall, he went to the White House with his parents and Conductor Kondrashin. President Eisenhower gave him a preperformance pep talk: "After that kind of ordeal over there, you will be all right." Cliburn hit Constitution Hall like a landslide, stayed for lunch in the Senate Dining Room with the congressional delegation from Texas. At week's end he returned to Manhattan to appear on TV's Steve Allen...
...much bigger reason for the new interest was continued gossip that the U.S. will soon raise the price of gold from $35 an ounce, where it has stayed since 1934, to $40. Such an action, went the talk, would not only ease the profit squeeze on many of the world's mining companies, but would also stimulate foreign trade by increasing the foreign-exchange reserves of many U.S. friends and allies...
Letting his fins down, Clare Briggs, Chrysler Corp. vice president, last week issued some plain talk on what is wrong with the auto business. "Many salesmen don't know how to sell," he said, auto service is bad, and the quality of cars is "not as good as ten years ago." The auto industry, admitted Briggs, "has treated the public badly, to say it mildly...