Word: whats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ILLINOIS' Adlai Stevenson has tried twice and lost-hugely-twice. His is an old face of defeat-and what is more, neither Truman nor Rayburn has much personal use for him.
Few men have been so bedeviled by political critics in the U.S. Congress as Democrat Dean Acheson during his four years as Secretary of State; Michigan's Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg, for one, felt genuine pity one night when Acheson dropped by his apartment and, over a mournful drink...
New Excursion. Fulbright kept boring in, drew an admission that Reid had not graduated with his class because his senior thesis had been unsatisfactory. Purred Fulbright: "What was the thesis about?" Said Reid in a small voice: "The thesis was about lobbying, sir, lobbying in Congress." A little later Fulbright...
Into the No. 2 job in the nation's No. 1, public business stepped an alumnus of the solidly schooled fraternity of bankers and lawyers that produced such topflight governmental figures as Dulles, McCloy and Dillon, Forrestal and Lovett. To succeed the late Donald Quarles as Deputy Secretary of...
What the Executive Council most objected to was the so-called "bill of rights," sponsored by Arkansas Democratic Senator John McClellan and added to the Kennedy bill midway through Senate debate on the measure as a floor amendment. In a private analysis circulated to the council members, A.F.L.-C.I.O. lawyers...