Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter from McDonald, who was so anxious to have the Administration take a hand in negotiations that he asked the President to appoint a fact-finding board to look into the issues. Arthur J. Goldberg, the union's general counsel, phoned Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell in Washington while McDonald's let ter was still on the way, told him what was in it. Mitchell, who had been keeping in touch with both sides, got together with Vice President Nixon and White House Counsel Gerald Morgan and worked out a reply. Then he called the union, told...
ALONG with the trust of the White House (he talks to President Eisenhower almost every day), Quesada has won the respect of almost everyone in Washington. When the House cut FAA's budget, he did not blame Congressmen, instead admitted: "I failed personally in not being able to convince the subcommittee of the urgency of our needs." Returning to the Hill, he turned on all burners-and his very best charm...
...combat commander in Europe and Africa, personally flew General Eisenhower over the D-day beachhead. Later he commanded the joint task force in the first H-bomb tests at Eniwetok. Atoll in 1951. After a brief hitch as head of Lockheed Aircraft's missile division, he returned to Washington...
...Kate Pulitzer Putman, daughter of the late St. Louis Post-Dispatch Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, in 1946, now has four children. For relaxation, he plays golf (handicap: 9) or tennis. But most of his time is spent in his office on the third floor of a converted hospital across from Washington's Corcoran Art Gallery, where he logs twelve hours a day. He works standing up, telephone to his ear, or prowls back and forth between his desk and work table. His friends insist that he tries to do too much himself, but General Quesada sees no help...
From all his ventures, Ekblom says that he has "sufficient wealth to provide for my family when I am no longer needed in industry." But many another executive has no such security. Says Ekblom: "I don't know the solution. Maybe the men in Washington who make up the tax schedule can do something about...