Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WASHINGTON, March 4--President Eisenhower dropped a strong hint today that, if John Foster Dulles resigns, Christian A. Herter will be named secretary of state...
...WASHINGTON, March 2--U.S. military forces are ready to support President Eisenhower's avowed determination to stand fast on American rights in Berlin, Secretary of Defense Neil H. McElroy told Congress today...
EVERYONE in Washington agrees that the U.S. should have a new Government housing program. But how much should the U.S. spend? And on what...
Died. Vice Admiral Osborne Bennett Hardison, U.S.N. (ret.), 66, skipper of the aircraft carrier Enterprise in the 1942 battle of the Santa Cruz Islands; of injuries received when he was run over by a truck; in Washington. The "Big E" was the lonely nucleus of U.S. naval power during the early phases of the Pacific war. Last summer, despite efforts to preserve her as a national memorial, the Enterprise was sold for scrap...
Died. Daniel Alden Reed, 83, Old Guard Republican Congressman from upstate New York, senior member and onetime chairman (1953-54) of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, foe of foreign aid, believer in high tariffs and low taxes; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Dan Reed was a direct descendant of John and Priscilla Alden and, in the Puritan tradition, a self-reliant conservative. Elected to the House in 1918, he was undefeated in 21 consecutive biennial elections, was topped in seniority only by Carl Vinson of Georgia (1914) and Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas...