Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate reacted to the gas bill uproar by heading full steam toward an investigation of lobbying activity that will probably run through the summer and cost half a million dollars. Most likely to conduct the hearings: Tennessee's Democrat Albert Gore, chairman of the Privileges and Elections Subcommittee. Last week Gore's three-member subcommittee voted itself a broad franchise calling for a "study of contributions to election campaigns in federal elections and such evidence of corrupt practices as may be revealed." High on Gore's agenda are investigations of lobbying...
...press conference last week, President Eisenhower replied: "I think, overall, we have no reason to believe that we are not doing everything that human science and brains and resources can do to keep our position in a proper posture." Ike's confidence, however, did not allay the uproar. By week's end three congressional committees were planning to investigate the guided-missile program...
...occupation authorities because he insisted on hiring ex-Nazis to staff his office. He needed men of ability, he argued, and the question of their Naziism was irrelevant. Patton agreed, but General Eisenhower did not. Schäffer went on hiring Nazis anyway, was discovered, and in the ensuing uproar,* Eisenhower ordered Schäffer fired. Schäffer got back in government three years later when fellow Christian Democrats, needing his help in Bavaria, asked for his reinstatement...
...Editor Waring makes the case for his own readers with harsher strokes. He plays up news of muggings in Harlem and race riots in Chicago to support a recurrent editorial theme: look what happens where you have integration. In his editorial last week calling the Lucy uproar the result of "appeasement of colored people," his strongest word for the rioters was "impolite...
...week's end, however, the uproar showed signs of settling at least into international perspective. British Prime Minister Eden indirectly arrayed himself alongside Dulles on the essential point: that deterrence was the policy of Britain, the U.S. and their allies. The London Daily Telegraph sharply attacked Dulles for his wording, his timing, and his manner of self-expression, "but to allow these marginal comments to provoke us into denouncing the central burden of his argument-that peace has depended in the past and still depends on American willingness to fight-is to cut off England's nose...