Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thermometer hung at a sharp 20° at the rambling Eisenhower farm outside Gettysburg at 8:49 one morning last week as a helicopter from Washington touched down on the lawn. The passengers were Presidential Assistant Wilton B. ("Jerry") Persons and Presidential Speechwriter Malcolm Moos. Their briefcase cargo: an all-but-final draft of the 1959 State of the Union message incorporating changes that the President had ordered two days before. The President greeted them just inside the door, led them to his long, heated sun porch, where he had been working on a portrait of Thomas Jefferson. They spread...
...conference's end, as Speechwriter Moos headed back to Washington with a heavily marked sheaf of papers for revision, the President got set to deliver the speech to Congress this week in a setting dominated by the U.S.S.R.'s dramatic emphasis not on budget-balancing but on reaching into space...
...Washington, at week's end, Labor Secretary James Mitchell called for legislation (proposed by the Eisenhower Administration, but rejected by the last Congress) that would limit coercive picketing in organizing drives. There was no better justification for such a law than last week's show of Jimmy Hoffa's unmitigated gall-and the certain promise that Hoffa had only begun to dream...
Eisenhower: "Ike? Oh, a very good fellow. Extremely good diplomat. Man to get 'em all working together. A man of courage. Not a great soldier ... I begged him not to [go into politics]. I said, since George Washington none of your soldiers have made very good politicians. I said the most successful was Harrison; he died within three months...
...field have brought out another cold-comfort report: the tar from pipes and cigars is as potent a cancer-causing agent to mice as that from cigarettes. The investigators were Dr. Ernest L. Wynder of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute and Adele B. Croninger of St. Louis' Washington University. As co-author they loyally listed their former chief, the late great Surgeon Evarts A. Graham, onetime chain smoker who died of inoperable lung cancer (TIME, March...