Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same straightforward reply to Khrushchev that it would have made if Dulles had been at his desk. The U.S., said Press Officer Lincoln White, is still awaiting a "reasoned reply" to its note suggesting a foreign ministers' conference. And in a display of calm decision in action, Washington ordered a Navy picket boat off Newfoundland to board and search a Soviet trawler suspected of damaging U.S. transatlantic cables on the ocean floor (see Foreign Relations...
Freshman Democrat Robert Byrd of West Virginia drew on George Washington, the Psalms and Pericles to back up Dodd: "I say that nothing can be politically right if it is morally wrong. If there must be a showdown, it should be in our time, and not in the time of our children...
...fishermen raised the nets, they raised the cables too, and the cables were broken or cut away to save the trawling gear.*After a 70-min. tour of the ship, Sheely asked the captain to move his fishing operation farther south, headed back to Hale. Reported Skipper Korte in Washington: "There were no indications of intentions other than fishing...
...When headlines blossomed with the story that Freshman Congressman Steven V. Carter's public relations assistant was1) his son, 2) 19 years old, 3) getting paid $11,872.26 a year, 4) splicing public relations into a pre-law course at George Washington University (TIME, March 2), Democrat Carter was unconcerned. Said he: "The folks back home in Iowa will understand." Last week enough mail had flooded Carter's Washington office to make it clear that folks back home did not understand at all. As a consequence, Carter made his maiden House speech, apologized if he had cast reflections...
...National Chairman Paul Butler of Indiana and his California sidekick Paul Ziffren (TIME, Feb. 16) held votes enough to force ratification of Los Angeles by a top-heavy 71-35, after a three-hour debate at the National Committee's session in Washington. The victory was a handsome push for Adlai Stevenson, longtime ally and presidential choice of the liberal Ziffren-Butler team. And this, even more than space, time and smog, was what worried moderate Easterners and conservative Southerners most...