Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expected to vote against foreign aid in any form, last week only 26 of the 152 G.O.P. members stood in opposition. Charlie Halleck had an explanation for the remarkable showing: "They're beginning to have a feeling of better liaison with the White House. It makes them want to go along...
...keeping himself informed-so he can help keep the President informed. "When I am dealing with the President's business," says Jerry Persons, "I am not going to act without adequate consideration. I may take a little bit more of his time, but I want to be sure to get all the arguments on both sides...
Whether the Federal Government will wind up in the red in fiscal 1960 also depends on what Congress does about the President's special request for $1.4 billion to meet U.S. International Monetary Fund obligations. Ike wants that $1.4 billion charged to the hopelessly unbalanced 1959 budget, some $13 billion in the red. Many Capitol Hill Democrats, led by Arkansas' Senator William Fulbright, want to list the IMF money in the 1960 budget, which would tilt it heavily out of balance. In predicting a $4.2 billion deficit in 1960, the joint committee report assumed that Fulbright & Fellows would...
...crop legislation is outmoded. It has placed ineffective bureaucratic controls on farmers, destroyed markets, piled up surpluses, and imposed heavy burdens on taxpayers . . . The voice of the American farmer calls in louder and louder tones for more freedom to act and less Government interference. If this is what farmers want, what are we waiting...
...tunnel's mouth, Cotton Executive Eric Moss, who had been on the site since the news of the accident reached him, said: "I don't want anybody else to risk their lives by trying to get my son's body out. Let's leave him where he is." But rescuers, who thought such a decision "goes right against the grain of every potholer," got permission to drive a new 20-ft. tunnel to get Moss's body out, because "it will teach us a lot in avoidance of future accidents...