Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First Enemies. The contributions of Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 62, courtly Virginian, onetime shoe salesman, onetime investment banker (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), onetime Navy rear admiral (ordnance, naval research, atomic energy), were as basic as President Eisenhower said they were. In 1947, as a Truman-appointed AECommissioner, Lewis Strauss (rhymes with laws) pushed through the nuclear-detection system that in September 1949 spotted the first Communist atomic blast, put the free world on guard. In October 1949, against the objection of all four of his fellow AECommissioners and all eight of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer's General Advisory Committee, he recommended...
Anderson's first quiet triumph was a close relationship between the Administration and the jealously independent Federal Reserve System, which controls U.S. bank-credit levels and was once openly at war with Harry Truman's Treasury Department, and continued to keep aloof in George Humphrey's day. Anderson persuaded Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. to drop around for informal sessions with the President, Anderson, Raymond Saulnier, Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, and Presidential Adviser Gabriel Hauge. Thus, without binding Bill Martin, the Administration had its first regular forum for voicing...
...became one of the nation's best-managed companies under two chief executives as famed for their public service as for their business savvy. Clarence Francis, president and later chairman between 1934 and 1954, has been a top food and foreign-trade adviser to Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower. His successor, Mortimer, was chairman of the star-studded Advertising Council from 1947 to 1950, headed the United Community Campaign fund last year. Under him, each General Foods' sales dollar has brought a pretax profit of 10? v. 7? for its chief competitor, Standard Brands (Chase & Sanborn coffee. Royal...
...Patted the backs of outgoing American Bar Association President Charles S. Rhyne (TIME, May 5) and incoming President Ross L. Malone Jr., onetime Justice Department house cleaner for Harry Truman...
...Thye's Senate seat. The contenders: St. Paul's Eugene McCarthy, 42, onetime St. John's University economics and education professor and five-term Congressman with one of the most liberal voting records in the House; Red Wing's Mrs. Eugenie Anderson, 49, Harry Truman's Ambassador to Denmark, who had campaigned hard through the state by 1953 Oldsmobile to overtake Gene McCarthy's early lead...