Word: v
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cannot stand by while the decline and fall of New York continues headlong," said Manhattan's Republican Representative John V. Lindsay, and, so saying, announced his candidacy for mayor against Democrat Robert Wagner...
...highly conservative William Howard Taft, who later became Chief Justice, called U.S. state criminal justice "a disgrace to our civilization." As recently as 1923, the Supreme Court confronted the fact that Arkansas' highest court had upheld death sentences meted out in a trial "dominated by mob violence" (Moore v. Dempsey). Was the Supreme Court wrong in reversing that decision? What about confessions "obtained by brutality or by fraud?" asked the dean. Since 1936, the court has faced 30 such cases -all affirmed by state courts. Did the Supreme Court overreach in overruling them...
Lyndon Johnson immediately grasped the significance and potential of Early Bird, the new communications satellite hovering 22,300 miles above the equator. Aware that the Russians were flooding European TV stations with films and pictures for the 20th anniversary of V-E day, the President acted swiftly last week to upstage them...
...meet at the White House to complain about the President's increasing pre-emption of prime TV time on short notice. Instead of a meeting, Johnson produced a new short-notice request. As soon as possible, he said, he wanted to use Early Bird to broadcast a V-E anniversary speech direct to Europe. Three and one-half hours later, in a slow and measured drawl, he was chiding Charles de Gaulle live on British and Italian TV screens, and being taped for later rebroadcast in almost every other European nation...
Because of the vast wealth and international obligations of the U.S., American officials hold a certain primacy of honor among the world's moneymen. This was undeniably the case when Douglas Dillon, as Treasury Secretary and Robert V. Roosa as his Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs were regulars at the monetary meetings. Because it will take time for their successors, Joe Fowler and Fred Deming (a new face at last week's Paris meetings), to build up comparable reputations, the Federal Reserve's Martin has become even more influential in monetary matters. Said Martin in Uruguay last...