Word: tides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sailed from the U.S. in 1949 to escape deportation. Before he departed for Hungary, where he became a government official, Santo had hurled a final diatribe: "Rulers" are riding the American people to the profit of Wall Street, using "labor lackeys and traitor agents" to "turn back the tide of history." Escaping Hungary Santo told New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Barrett McGurn that he hoped for "asylum in my own country -America" where he would "take my chances with the American system." No longer was he worried about U.S. "labor lackeys" and "traitor agents." Said Santo: "I think...
...hopes for a rising tide of modern Republicanism came a dash of bad tidings last week from a Down East stalwart. The tidebreaker: Frederick George Payne, 56, former (1949-53) Maine governor and 1952 Ike-backer who edged out Taftman Owen Brewster in the 1952 primaries and is now Maine's junior Senator. The tidings: hardworking, quietly effective Frederick Payne will not seek re-election in 1958. Among the reasons for the change in Payne: his health (he has a chronic but not disabling heart disorder), his family (Mrs. Payne doesn't like Washington), his pocketbook...
...flood tide of criticism began to subside, ex-Ambassador Joseph Grew, RFE's boss (as chairman of Free Europe Committee, Inc.), angrily fired off a statement charging: "It is an insult to the brave Hungarian people to suggest that they have responded to any other influence than their innate love of liberty...
...industry is also throbbing with a headache over the Middle East. In Texas a major argument raged between independent oilmen and the big companies over how to supply Europe with oil to tide it over until supplies start flowing freely again from Arab fields. While major companies want to boost U.S. production, the independents insist that the shortage should be filled from existing U.S. supplies above ground, argue that production increases will only result in bigger domestic surpluses once the immediate Suez crisis is past. As of last week, at least, the independents were winning. The Texas Railroad Commission, which...
...depended. His few sound investments were mostly expensive industrial installations, which the country's capital-short economy could ill afford. Moreover political interference with the operation of government-owned projects further hindered the country's industrial development. Belated attempts to limit imports of "luxuries" failed to stem the tide of rising debt and ebbing reserves...