Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Where foreign policy is concerned, as you know, Chris," said Dulles, "I have always felt that there could not and should not be any interlopers between the President and the Secretary of State." It struck one who was there that Dulles was recalling how his uncle, Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State Robert Lansing, had been short-circuited by Wilson's reliance upon his close adviser, Colonel Edward M. House. Then Special Consultant Dulles assured Secretary of State Herter that he, Dulles, would never get in the way. Said he: "I have never wanted to be an interloper...
Since the beginning of the year, U.S. business has invested some $130 million in Britain; total U.S. investment now stands at about $2.8 billion. Last week after Timken Roller Bearing Co. had offered $30.5 million for the outstanding British-held shares of British Timken Ltd., Laborite Harold Wilson rose in the House of Commons to ask whether the trend was not "cause for alarm or action." Calmly replied Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heathcoat Amory: "I should remind you that the amount of net investment we have made abroad enormously exceeds any net foreign investment made in this country over...
...Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot, Wilson...
Most Wodehouse characters live in England, but they have a curiously American shine to their ways. His heroines would seem the image of Harry Leon Wilson flappers of pre-World War I America-the America first known to Wodehouse-were it not for the fact that they are simultaneously as British as Poet John Betjeman's strong-armed Dianas; they display the "outer crust ... of Miss Marilyn Monroe," and yet still manage to draw from their swains such modish endearments of the British '20s as a "tenderly" spoken "old blighter." Wodehouse heroes are often golfers, but they play...
...Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot, by Angus Wilson. An English widow sentenced under the law of diminishing returns to social work, the company of Angry Young Men, and bohemian...