Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...margins ranging from 12 to 1,699. The heaviest Good Government votes came from the Negro districts-and from residential Pulaski Heights, where live Little Rock's leading citizens. (One Faubus victory: in Little Rock's changeover to a city-manager form of government. Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann, Faubus' foe in the battle of Central High, lost...
...some people and say, 'Look, I'm going to tell you this for your own good.' You can't do that with Ike any more. He gets irritated." Godfrey also revealed that even his longtime friendship with ex-Defense Boss Charlie Wilson had deteriorated to just "polite phone calls on birthdays...
...country forced itself to laugh. Sputnik puns flourished, and even official responses attempted, at the outset, to dilute the Soviet achievement. Both the President and ex-Secretary Wilson tried to minimize the significance of the innovation, but the public found its sense of humor dampened by something that seemed like anxiety but couldn't be; America had never troubled itself over the technological advances of her rivals. Her superiority was too great, her talent too secure...
...announced that the government would veto all wage increases for its own employees in the ministries and nationalized industries, hoped thereby to set an example for private industry. Further wage hikes, warned Thorneycroft, "would be a disaster to this country." Snapped the Labor Party's economic spokesman, Harold Wilson: "A straight declaration of war" against the trade unions...
...another matter-the health of the U.S. economy-Hoover disclosed that economic crystal gazing is no longer for him: "I'm through with that sort of thing. I'm busy writing books." Current project: a volume on his friend and World War I White House predecessor, Woodrow Wilson...