Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allegory, the President recalled that he had once, as Supreme Allied Commander in World War II, asked Washington to send him "a certain corps commander." Back came word that the officer was so crippled that the doctors "won't assure you that he can move around." Said Ike, by his own account: "You send the man and I will send him to battle in a litter because he can do better that way than most people I know." Officer identified subsequently by the White House: Lieut. General Troy H. Middleton, who led Eisenhower's VIII Corps...
Militant Reuther, by talking up the need for an "unemployment march" on Washington to dramatize the unemployment problem, swung the news spotlight on the Puerto Rico meeting. Asked in press conference what he would think about such a march, President Eisenhower countered with a rare gibe: "I don't see any good to come out of any such demonstration. I believe that news item came out of Puerto Rico. There people must be on the sunny beaches; I don't know whether they are going to march from there over to this foggy Washington...
...first pleasant chores of a freshman Congressman is to decide how he will spend some $40,000 a year that he rates for office help. He can hire his clerks, secretaries and office managers from the pool of old pros who live and work around Washington (and run the chance that his secrets may soon be on the grapevine), or he can reward his friends and relatives with jobs. One hazard: if he puts someone with his own family name on the federal payroll, his open nepotism may well backfire when the payroll records are made public. Last week came...
...salary of $11,872.26 a year. Steve's job, explained Congressman Carter proudly, is to "take care of the folks who come in from Iowa, let them know what I'm doing, help them enjoy themselves." Young Carter, a part-time prelaw student at nearby George Washington University, insists that he puts in 40 hours a week on the job-although his morning class schedule scarcely permits him to get to the office much before noon-adds that "I stay in the evening often till 6 o'clock...
...beginner. Public Relations Man Carter succeeded pretty well. After the bureaucracy-wise Washington Daily News sniffed out the story, both he and his father hit newspapers and TV stations all over the country-including the ones back home. The Des Moines Register, for example, allowed dryly that "lowans will fully appreciate how quickly Congressman Carter is becoming adjusted to the Washington style of doing things...