Word: timed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President did not think so. The TV scandal touched off by the confessions of Charles Van Doren (see SHOW BUSINESS) seemed to leave the U.S. "bewildered," said he. It reminded him of the time when the Chicago White Sox were accused of taking bribes to throw the 1919 World Series; a bewildered newsboy went to Outfielder "Shoeless Joe" Jackson and said, "Say it ain't so, Joe." Obstinacy at the bargaining table and dishonesty on the air waves, Ike went on, are reminders that "selfishness and greed . . . occasionally get the ascendancy over those things that we like to think...
...Have Gone Soft." Reminders of man's ignoble qualities were falling on the public ear with increasing frequency, not only in sermons, books and editorials, but in plain-spoken political speeches. Economic Man, his wants largely satisfied for the time, was no longer the main concern of the stump-thumping candidates. Instead, a rising chorus of politicos urged a prosperous U.S. to see beyond personal prosperity to national purpose. With the approach of 1960, a major new political issue was emerging, capable of maturing into a serious debate of U.S. aims and purposes...
...People Are Looking." With the immemorial necessity of "Outs" in all campaigns, the Democrats were reaching for an issue. In a time of evident prosperity, the "slow corrosion" issue turned prosperity from the world's wonder to a road to wickedness and decadence. But the issue gained strength from general uneasiness about the U.S. lag in space and missilery. Some hard-boiled Democratic pros, mindful of Adlai Stevenson's disaster when he tried to discuss the issue of national "drift" in 1956, were trying to avoid such words as "purpose" and "softness" in favor of Candidate Stuart Symington...
...precisely denned. The President's announced trip to South Asia (see The Presidency) was in a sense national purpose on the move. So, in effect, was Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson's attempt to establish a durable world economic policy based on free trade and mutual self-help (TIME, Nov. 9). But there was no clear articulation of purpose. "Our leaders have not been able to give us a sense of direction," said Sylvan Meyer, editor of the Gainesville (Ga.) Times. "They've told us we have to sacrifice luxuries to carry out our job in the world...
...emergency procedure of the twelve-year-old Taft-Hartley Act is constitutional. It does not, as the union contended, unconstitutionally require the courts to "legislate" policy on a strike. "The statute does recognize certain rights in the public to have unimpeded for a time production in industries vital to the national health or safety," ruled the court...