Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...response to a reporter's question at his midweek press conference, Ike casually agreed that an interchange of meetings between Zhukov and his U.S. opposite number. Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, "might" be useful. "Marshal Zhukov and I operated together very closely [in occupied postwar Berlin]," said Eisenhower. "I couldn't see any harm coming from a meeting between the two Defense Ministers, if that could be arranged...
Bloody Recollection. Ike's cautious opening of the door to a Zhukov-Wilson conference-he shied away from any hint of personal involvement-blossomed into international headlines, provoked widespread, mixed reaction. Montana's Mike Mansfield, Democratic whip in the Senate, urged Ike to go farther, meet Zhukov face to face; such a meeting would "weigh heavily in the President's fav.or. I'm certain that the President would not be taken in." Western diplomats leaked worries that Ike's friendly remarks about Zhukov, suppressor of the bloody Hungarian revolt, might kill a U.S.-sponsored United...
Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson, is ready and all but packed to leave Washington, but Dwight Eisenhower won't let him go. Reason: the White House is having an unbelievably hard time finding a replacement for "Engine Charlie...
That left three more possibilities: 1) Fred A. Seaton, Nebraska newspaper publisher, onetime Assistant Secretary of Defense (under Wilson), interim Senator, later White House staffer and now Secretary of the Interior; 2) Navy-minded Wilfred J. McNeil (a rear admiral in the Reserve), comptroller of the Defense Department in both the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations, who says modestly that he thinks that a big industrialist' should get the job; 3) air-and missile-minded Donald A. Quarles, onetime Bell Laboratories executive, later Secretary of the Air Force, now Deputy Secretary of Defense, a scientist and methodical thinker...
...cashed in by raising prices. Then came the Korean war, and once more a scramble for materials and goods sent prices soaring. Wages were slow in catching up. In fact, after General Motors set up the first automatic "annual improvement factor" increase in wage contracts in 1950, Charles E. Wilson, then G.M. president, said: "It is not primarily wages that push up prices. It is primarily prices that pull up wages." After 1952, wages began to catch up to prices, while the cost of living held steady. In the third round of inflation, which started in 1956 because of heavy...