Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bastardized. It was no use: a majority of Democrats defeated a majority of Republicans in beating down amendments seeking the restoration of foreign-aid funds. Indeed, such was the party turnabout that Pennsylvania's Daniel Flood, a Democrat who remained loyal to foreign aid, berated his fellow Democrats for deserting their own program. ''This is your baby,'' thundered Flood. "Do you make this a bastard child...
...military side, the services argue that they now have a substantial small-war capability. The Army, while woefully in need of air transport, is streamlining itself so that it can quickly be flown to brush-fire war areas. The Navy's readiness to use Marine amphibious forces is part of the Navy's traditional role in "limited situations." And the Air Force's Tactical Air Command and some SAC units could be diverted to limited wars without limiting SAC's overall retaliatory mission...
Such criticism of Kissinger specifics are valid, but so is Kissinger's broader point that all these assets are likely to be wasted unless the U.S. is militarily, and above all psychologically, ready to use them-if deterrence fails. It takes a firm hand and steady nerves to face a small-war challenge, to resist the outcries against atomic weapons, and to confront the enemy with the choice of backing down or risking all-out war. Raising the prospect of such a challenge in advance is Kissinger's important service. At a time when public apathy, disarmament talk...
...Meany (now president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.) killed the move. In the end Hickey discovered that Hoffa had sneaked Teamster charters through to Dio anyway. Announced Hickey: he will run for the international presidency against Hoffa late next month. Asked John McClellan: "If you should be elected, would you use all power vested in you to clean out this organization?" Replied Tom Hickey firmly: "I would dedicate myself to that ambition...
Benson wants Congress to get rid of rigid, mandatory price supports altogether, grant the Agriculture Secretary authority to set support under any farm commodity at whatever level he deems suitable, from 100% down. If Benson gets his way, the Government will no longer use supports to try to make farming profitable even for an inefficient farmer on an obsolete small farm. Supports would serve only to prevent drastic price falls from one year to the next. In coping with a commodity in oversupply, e.g., wheat, Benson would lower the support price bit by bit. Gradually, farmers would shift wheat fields...