Word: trades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Doing" Something. In fact, during 1958 the President has exercised strong leadership of rare quality. He fought hard, long and successfully to push the three essentials of his program-defense reorganization, foreign aid, and reciprocal trade-through a reluctant Congress. He stood staunchly behind the attempts of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson to bring sanity into the farm-subsidy program when many a Republican Congressman was yelping for Benson's scalp. After the revolution in Iraq last July, it took President Eisenhower only twelve hours to have U.S. Marines landing in Lebanon -and not even from Democratic liberals...
...nameless million voters who had previously backed the Communists, was an intense desire to be rid of the ungoverned and ungovernable past. It was a vote against twelve years of muddle, against 25 governments that had fallen one by one, against the "system" that De Gaulle once called the "trade union of place holders." It was, above all, a vote of confidence in Charles de Gaulle himself-for the soldier son of a professor of philosophy, for the youisg general who had taken a chance in 1940 and personified France in the councils of the Allies...
...reference to his age ("I am 60") that he would rather be a potential Foreign Secretary than a rebel who would never be Prime Minister. That left the left-wingers without a head but still capable of making a lot of noise. With the help of the stolid old trade-union wheel-horses who are the strength of the party, Gaitskell skillfully headed off the more headlong Socialist chargers. Hell-bent for equality, they wanted to abolish British public (i.e., private) schools, such as his own posh Winchester. They were beaten (see EDUCATION...
Cutter, which markets fibrinogen under the trade name Parenogen, packs an explanatory card with every gram. On a tear-off part aimed at physicians, it urges: "Make sure that this gets to the one who pays the patient's bill, preferably at the time of injection or when the bill is presented. The costliness of Parenogen will come as a shock and will surely be resented unless it is fully understood. Help avoid this unnecessary resentment by seeing that this gets to the bill payer...
...Packer (who is described in the catalogue as "one of America's pioneer captains of industry") had wanted to build a technical institution but was convinced by "educational advisers" to widen the scope of his new school. Although an old edition of the Oxford Directory might call engineering a trade, Herbert Hoover would say it is a profession, and Lehigh educators have consistently agreed with Hoover...