Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What does the U.S. stand for in the world other than being the biggest military power and the richest country on earth? One thing it stands for is wrapped up in a well-worn term: "foreign aid." Since World War II the U.S. has helped other countries to revive their economies and backstop their military forces in the amount of $40 billion. Not every dollar or even every million dollars of this has been wisely spent, but on the record the program stands as a unique effort in the history of nations of one country's using its power...
...Strongly Recommended." Before his term in Washington, Richie Mack had kicked around Florida all his life, working as an insurance salesman and a credit manager, was secretary and general manager of the Port Everglades Rock Co. at Fort Lauderdale in 1947 when then Governor Millard Caldwell appointed him to the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission. Eight years later, President Eisenhower named him to fill a Democratic vacancy on the Federal Communications Commission. Said Florida's Democratic Senator Spessard Holland at Mack's Senate confirmation hearings: "I may say that he was strongly recommended for this post...
While physicians were learning to make the best use of heparin, Agriculturist Karl Paul Link and fellow researchers at the University of Wisconsin discovered another potent anticoagulant, dicoumarin, in rotted sweet clover (TIME, Feb. 14, 1944), which had been killing cattle. It is still widely used for long-term treatment of thrombosis patients, because it can be given handily by mouth. But the Wisconsin labs have synthesized more than 100 related substances, and one of these, Link suggested, would make a safe and deadly rat poison. He was right. Named warfarin,* it is usually applied to bait grain. Unsuspecting rats...
Balance of Power. The miracle of T.R.'s second-term domestic struggles is that he won them while actually concentrating on foreign policy, while putting in the most definitive display of world peacekeeping by power politics that the U.S. had ever known. In T.R.'s second term the world stage was vaster than the Caribbean. World powers were in the mood for adventures. Secret treaties were being signed. The adolescent machine gun would cause untold loss of life. So T.R. began to move his ships and his diplomats in consort to try to head off history...
...Illinois, early famed as federal prosecutor of Al Capone, later as yes-man to the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick; of lung cancer; in Chicago. Green nominated Thomas E. Dewey for the presidency in 1944, keynoted the 1948 Republican Convention. Trying for an unprecedented third consecutive term, he was defeated by Adlai Stevenson, soon reappeared in the news as the governor who put 51 Illinois newsmen on the state payroll, spent his final years practicing law in Chicago...