Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hill. The most striking evidence was the way House Democratic leaders received the tax proposal sent up by President Eisenhower (TIME, June 2). With the recession apparently bottoming out and Budget Director Maurice Stans promising a deep-red budget, the President had adopted Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson's tough-minded case for standing pat on taxes (see box, next page). All that Ike asked Congress to do was extend for another year, at present rates, the corporation and excise taxes now scheduled to shrink back to pre-Korea size on July...
...came mainly from his Navy Secretary days (1953-54), when he was known as a flexible, laconic worker who stayed out of headlines and was more willing to listen to others than to voice his own ideas. Now the news spread gradually that here was a man with a tough confidence in a free-operating economy and a determination to keep the U.S. strong in the world. Texan Anderson had one other advantage over George Humphrey: friendship with Texan Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Ruled Mr. Sam 15 years ago: "He's reliable...
...powerful chairmanship of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy next year, and Strauss believes their feud would be detrimental to the AEC program. The President wants Strauss to stay on; Strauss has countered by trying to find a successor who is reasonably free of Washington entanglements, reasonably tough enough to stand the heat...
...Governor of Alaska." Unschooled in the well-oiled sophistication expected of Governors, he is content to make his points with an earnest warmth that radiates alley or when a he waits his barbershop-or turn a in a territorial bowling committee meeting. And beneath all of this is the tough mettle that was born in him and was strengthened on the cold, hard anvil of Alaskan living...
...state papers, copies of constitutions and history books, set to work writing a provisional constitution. For 75 days, the Alaskans labored, phrasing, rephrasing, arguing. At length, on Feb. 5, 1956, emotionally spent, physically exhausted, brimming with pride, they voted to approve a finely hewn document. "These are good, tough men and women, and I wondered if we might not be getting carried away," recalls Alaska University President Ernest N. Patty, "so I looked for [Real Estate Man] Muktuk Marsdon-this big, tough man with a face like granite. And there he was, digging tears from the corners of his eyes...