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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allegory, the President recalled that he had once, as Supreme Allied Commander in World War II, asked Washington to send him "a certain corps commander." Back came word that the officer was so crippled that the doctors "won't assure you that he can move around." Said Ike, by his own account: "You send the man and I will send him to battle in a litter because he can do better that way than most people I know." Officer identified subsequently by the White House: Lieut. General Troy H. Middleton, who led Eisenhower's VIII Corps...
...will he have time to campaign for re-election to the Senate? Solution: Humphrey got a flat commitment from Minnesota's ambitious but loyal Democrat-Farmer-Labor comrade, Governor Orville Freeman, that no D.F.L. competition for Humphrey's seat will be tolerated until Humphrey gives the word that the presidency situation is settled...
...Pantagraph's strange ban has been in force so long that no one on the paper remembers when it began, or why. Some say it dates from the 1880s, when, for the first time, regular word of extra-Bloom-ington events came stuttering in over the newfangled press service telegraph and-in Bloomington, anyway-took a greedy grip on Page One. Today the sight of a local story on the front page would perturb editor and reader both...
...called on his diocese to boycott the "foreigners," the new basilica stood finally finished. Less splendid was the open feud among churchmen. As Paris' Le Monde put it: "Monsignor Théas has paid a heavy price for his basilica in every sense of the word...
...whose actual or titular sees are in Turkey. To elect James, Athenagoras needed a minimum of six votes plus his own tiebreaker, but could muster only five. The majority considered strongly anti-Communist Archbishop James too "progressive." When four anti-James metropolitans took their case outside the synod, leaking word to Turkish newspapers that James was "an enemy of the Turkish people," Athenagoras promptly took the strong action of dismissing the four metropolitans from the current synod. Then, in a surprise rump-session, he put across James's election...