Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most important of all in terms of long-range U.S. domestic welfare, Dwight Eisenhower, among all the politicians in Washington, refused to panic when recession came. Time and again Democratic doom-criers, editorialists and some timorous Republicans demanded that he "do" something. He was in fact doing quite a bit: by fighting effectively against irresponsible tax cuts and wild pump-priming, he was proving that a sound free-enterprise economy could right itself without massive Government interference. He also was holding down the inflation that would have been the inevitable result of a big Government spending spree...
Dick Nixon flew out of Washington on his first prop-stop tour of the 1958 campaign last week, and before his chartered flying-command post had made three landings, Republicans across the land had a feeling they were back in business again...
Twenty-four hours after entering Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center for his annual head-to-toe physical examination, a ruddy, smiling Dwight Eisenhower-onetime victim of a heart attack (1955), ileitis (1956) and mild stroke (1957)-came out with the pronouncement from his doctors that he is in "an excellent state of health...
...Washington, scrappy James K. Vardaman Jr., 64, St. Louis banker who fought with the Navy at Sicily and Okinawa in World War II and ended his active service as Naval Aide (with the rank of commodore) to Crony Harry Truman, submitted his resignation as one of the seven members of the Federal Reserve Board, after more than twelve years' service. One reason: poor health...
Next week the U.S. will try to send a rocket around the moon. At the same time or soon after, the Russians may be tempted to outdo the U.S. by hitting the moon with a big rocket. Last week scientists of the International Council of Scientific Unions met in Washington to plead with both to make haste with due care...