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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON April 18--President Eisenhower, whose budget for next year has been a target of criticism, today outlined a method of cutting appropriation...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Eisenhower Outlines Reductions Of 1.8 Billion in Appropriations; State Dept. to Issue Suez Policy | 4/19/1957 | See Source »

...executive board of the 1,350,000-member union said when a hearing under satisfactory conditions is held the entire board will answer the charges, not just President Dave Beck, target of Senate and AFL-CIO investigations...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Ike Signs Post Office Relief Bill; Jordan Rule Firmly Entrenched; Teamsters Remain Behind Beck | 4/17/1957 | See Source »

Plows for Afghans? Everyone stood foursquare for peace, but the most popular target of budget-cutters is a basic part of the U.S. peace program: foreign aid. In Boston the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce planned a budget-cutting demonstration in the form of a "second Boston Tea Party." Cried Milling Executive Paul Rothwell, chairman for the tea party: "It's silly to send tractors or plows to Afghanistan when the people there don't know how to use them."* Across the U.S. and across the economic scale, a Seattle fabrication-plant employee echoed: "Instead of giving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BUDGET: Peace, Progress & Pork | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...Foreign aid," he said, taking up the budget cutters' favorite target, "has no pressure group in any district in the U.S. . . . But I say to you there are no dollars today that are being spent more wisely for the future of American peace and prosperity than the dollars we put in foreign aid." He defended his embattled $451 million school-aid program as a one-shot emergency undertaking: "While I don't believe in the general theory of Federal Government supporting education throughout our country all the time, I do believe this deficit must be made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Case for the Budget | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...plot looks like something perpetrated by a drunken silkworm. Is the sheriff (Jack Carson) the crook? Is the hero the villain? Is the lawyer the defendant? Does anybody care? Actor Chandler seems to care deeply, because he tries so hard, but his performance never really hits the target. He cannot seem to distinguish between beau and Darrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 8, 1957 | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

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