Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unique acceptance of second-time-around budgetary responsibility, and was calculated to cut spending by about $600 million in fiscal 1958 and even more in future years. But the message was more than that: it was an all-out Administration effort to recapture the lead in the budget-cutting uproar touched off by the Humphrey flap. Moreover, it was a unique way of dramatizing the fact that Congress too has an impelling duty to act responsibly...
...that if Congressmen could cut the budget, it "is their duty to do it." "I'm witk You." That was all the slashers needed. Before long, White House staffers were wringing their hands as they saw the Administration's programs under fire. Throughout the Administration the budget uproar came to be called "the Humphrey flap." Typical remark at Cabinet meetings: "George, you see what you cost me in the House this week?" The most outspoken of Humphrey's Cabinet critics was Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, whose New England sense of thrift is every bit as sharp...
Congress last week was irritating President Eisenhower in areas beyond mere personal attack. He had been privately nettled at the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee for opening itself up to blame in the suicide of Canadian Ambassador to Egypt Herbert Norman (see HEMISPHERE); Ike tried to calm the Canadian uproar with words of sympathy. Nettling him also was continued congressional delay in an area where presidential prestige was at stake. After last autumn's Hungarian uprising, the President made outright and definite commitments to secure regular refugee status for about 25,000 Hungarians admitted to the U.S. as parolees. Warned...
...back home, the old buccaneer settled down to a life of refined retirement. No marquis of the old nobility could have been more indignant than General Le Van Vien when he returned from his drive last week to find his garden full of policemen and his house in an uproar. "A miserable little robbery and everyone loses his head," he exclaimed. "It's indecent and ridiculous. France shows us hospitality, and this is how we repay her. We bother the police and we worry the Minister of the Interior...
Frightened by the uproar, Fenton had meanwhile buried the jewels beneath a palm tree on a lonely beach. Questioned, he claimed steadfastly that he had hardly known the vacationers, said that as far as he remembered Mrs. Hallock had never displayed any jewelry more flamboyant than a trivial topaz ring. As Mrs. Hoffman tore Fenton's story to shreds, police grilled Waiter Rios, whose share of the loot had been only $200 in cash. Rios admitted that Fenton had hired him to help rob the couple. On the 17th day Fenton lost his nerve; news had arrived that...