Word: washington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crisp with excitement and expectancy in the crowded Washington hearing room this week when the fact-finding panel appointed by President Eisenhower started its last-chance hearings in an effort to help get the steel strike settled. When the session ended 4½ hours later, Chairman George William Taylor was still showing the unflagging amiability and hopefulness of the professional mediator, but the excitement and expectancy in the audience had soured into disgust at both sides. The fact finders had clearly silhouetted one big fact that the U.S. was discovering on its own: in the 14-week wrangling...
Roses. Still savoring the memories, the President flew back to Washington from Abilene at the end of his overnight stay. At the White House, the U.S. Army Chorus surprised him with a medley of tunes: Happy Birthday, The Yellow Rose of Texas, and one of his favorites, Army Blue ("We'll bid farewell to Kaydet Gray, and don the Army Blue . . .")-The White House employees had filled a huge vase with 69 roses, and the executive staff presented him with four matched bridge chairs for the Gettysburg farm. The famed Eisenhower grin showed that the President felt quite...
...Accepted with regret the resignation of Virginia's former Governor John S. Battle from the Civil Rights Commission, started the tough job of finding another Southerner to serve in Battle's place. ¶Nominated John D. Hickerson, able U.S. Ambassador to Finland since 1955, to succeed Washington-bound Ambassador Charles ("Chip") Bohlen in Manila...
...recalling the agonizing bloodletting of American doughboys who had gone to war ill prepared, Colonel Marshall argued bitterly against the prospect of more unpreparedness. Fatefully, when the first flames of the new European conflict sputtered to life, he was a brigadier general in the War Plans Division in Washington. On Sept. 1, 1939, the day Hitler smashed into Poland, President Roosevelt jumped Marshall over 34 higher-ranking officers to Chief of Staff and four-star rank, handed him the job of getting an unprepared nation ready for war. Battling divided public opinion and an isolationist Congress, Marshall stubbornly, coldly, turned...
With a diplomatic wink the unofficial Foreign Service Journal last week gave its readers in the U.S. Foreign Service some hints on rating their State Department colleagues in Washington's Foggy Bottom. Items...