Word: writes
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...Thomas E. Dewey appointed Dulles to a U.S. Senate vacancy, and four months later, after a crossroads campaign to win and hold the seat, the Wall Street lawyer was roundly defeated by Democratic ex-Governor Herbert Lehman. An early supporter of Eisenhower over conservative Republican Robert Taft, he helped write the foreign-policy plank for the 1952 G.O.P. platform. President-elect Eisenhower put him at the top of the list of choices for Secretary of State, a position he would also have achieved if either Republican candidate, Dewey or Taft, had become President...
...Senate, by voice vote, passed a bill to increase federal income taxes on U.S. insurance companies from $319 million this year to $500 million. The bill had the endorsement of 34 life insurance companies who write 70% of U.S. life insurance. They would have had to pay even more under an old tax formula, which was to take effect again this year when current stopgap formulas expire...
With the inadvertent aid of the 1,100 newsmen in Geneva, most of whom found little to write about beyond tactical differences among the Western powers, the Russian ploy was successful enough to provoke London's BBC into an irate accusation that the West Germans were conducting a "whispering campaign" against the British delegation. But with the foreign ministers themselves, the Russian maneuver was a flat failure: Selwyn Lloyd argued the West's case as stoutly as anyone. When Gromyko approached Lloyd privately to reiterate Khrushchev's proposals for Berlin, Lloyd coldly replied: "If that...
Specifically, Schlesinger retired to write a series of books based on his undergraduate course, "Social and Intellectual History of the United States." He has devoted most of his time in retirement exclusively to this project, refusing any teaching offers and giving very few lectures. (One exception was his opening lecture of the spring term in History 169, on which he commented proudly, "of course, I just couldn't refuse my son.") He is not rushing his work because he feels he has plently of time--and he is thoroughly enjoying himself...
...does this mean that they are therefore automatically innocent and can be trusted with responsibility? I do not think so. "Anti-Semites" break no laws so long as they just write and teach their doctrines of hate. But because they cannot be convicted in a court of law would you therefore allow them to teach in the universities? No, you know as well as I that private institutions can exercise their own judgment regarding whom they desire as teachers or other employees. Might I suggest that in using this "innocent until proven guilty" standard on Communists but not on Fascists...