Word: vis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good guys. The movie purports to be the true story of John Philip Clum (Audie Murphy), Indian agent for the Department of the Interior, who was sent to Tucson, Ariz, in 1874 to represent the U.S. Government in its relations with the Apaches. Clum arrived with a novel idea, vis., that the Apaches are human...
...towards this end were introduced, of course, in the Eightieth Congress, yet none of them succeeeded, in spite of Republican majorities in both houses. The Taft-Hartley Act, which emerged as the compromise, cast formidable new obstacles in the way of union organization and conferred advantages upon management vis-a-vis labor which had not been therefore a part...
...South's irrational and intransigent attitude can be traced to its own feelings of persecution vis-à-vis Washington. Men like Eastland owe their political lives to the hatreds this situation has evoked. The best answer is to oppose the dark (Eastland) image of the South with a new one. Estes Kefauver is the logical choice. His election would isolate the extremists by depriving them of mass support in much the same way as Eisenhower's presence in the White House finished McCarthy...
...problem of space and staff, but it also reflects an undercurrent among the nation's cultured that means greater demands on an already overburdened Fogg. Part of the demand comes not from the United States but from abroad, largely as a consequence of the War and our new position vis-a-vis Europe, in culture as well as in finance...
...President spelled out, as only the man in his job could, the U.S. position vis-à-vis the new Soviet stance: there is less danger of a shooting war; there is new and serious danger in Soviet economic and political offensives; the U.S. must aim toward a long-range world economic policy to counter the new Soviet offensive. With President Eisenhower back in charge, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles went abroad in an attempt to bolster some points of strength, mend some points of weakness. In Karachi, at a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Southeast...