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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...position of Vice President Richard Nixon is one of the most interesting-and difficult-in U.S. politics. Long before the President's heart attack, Nixon was a favorite target of Democrats who felt it unprofitable to criticize Dwight Eisenhower. With the post-coronary realization that Nixon may very well be the man they have to beat this November, the Democratic concentration against him has become even more intense. By itself, the let's-get-Nixon drive would be as much a compliment as a disadvantage to him if it were not for a peculiarity of the vice-presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE-PRESIDENCY: Happy Birthday? | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...asked Rowland Hughes if his Budget Bureau work presented a conflict of interest. When Hughes was summoned, he replied vaguely that he had told Wenzell to check with First Boston and Joe Dodge. Non-politician Hughes was jolted to his eyeteeth to discover that he was suddenly a major target in the all-out Democratic attack on the Dixon-Yates contract. Rattled by the committee's questions, he suffered lapses of memory on vital points, and left a bad impression. He was at his most lucid when he said: "We may have made mistakes, the Lord knows, but there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Logical Man | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...biggest target under Air Force sights since the Korean armistice, Alabama's overblown (248 Ibs.) Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, whose pleasure sortie in a National Guard plane to a Texas football game drew fire from the Pentagon (TIME, Dec. 12), called off a similar mission he had scheduled for New Year's Eve. Determined to take in the "Gator" Bowl game in Jacksonville, Fla., Kissin' Jim had planned to launch a grandiose air armada on the pretext of "inspectin' " the runways at a Jacksonville airport. By last week he had reconsidered, decided instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 9, 1956 | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

Speech & Contradiction. Ambition-driven Mendès-France not only had little time to get started, but he was also the chief target of systematic hecklers from the right and left, including the strong-arm Poujadists. At a Left Bank rally in Paris, students hooted: "Mendès to the lamppost! Feed him to the jackals!" In his home department of Eure, he urged, in five or six speeches a day, an end to colonial wars abroad and "immobilism" at home. He was constantly interrupted. Usually Mendeès ignored the burly hecklers who make race-hate their specialty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Tomorrow's Secret | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

Stop Sign. Curtice's problems in Washington are tougher to deal with. With annual sales ($13 billion) almost twice as large as those of the second-largest corporation (Standard Oil Co. of N.J.), G.M. is an ever-tempting political target. Moreover, some of Eisenhower's economic advisers are complaining about the rapid increase in consumer credit (up $4 billion in the first nine months of 1955, to $34.3 billion), and at the automobile industry's $14 billion share of it (although repayments are remarkably regular and repossessions low). Because Defense Secretary Wilson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAN OF THE YEAR: First Among Equals | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

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