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...Eisenhower (who also was top man in 1952) had as many votes as the combined total of the next two men on the list-Sir Winston Churchill and General Douglas MacArthur. Other high-ranking also-rans: Harry S. Truman, Adlai E. Stevenson, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, Pope Pius XII and former President Herbert Hoover. A newcomer among the top ten: Wisconsin's U.S. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, who ranked seventh...
...attitude of this nation to the President's proposals has been one of optimism, qualified by the experience gained through seven years of cold war. Some hopeful observers point out that the new plan contains little that the USSR might find offensive. Unlike the Baruch proposals of 1945 which the Russians rejected, the Eisenhower offer makes no attempt to monopolize atomic power in an international commission. But even though the plan has been freed from this stigma, there seems little hope for its quick acceptance...
McCloskey recalled that many of the same proposals were made five years ago by Bernard Baruch, but that efforts to initiate international control have continually been squelched because the Soviet Union refused to allow inspection by foreigners...
...farmers, both as producers and as consumers: "The tariff is a form of subsidy [that] penalizes the many in order to help the few." Free trade would hurt some U.S. producers, but "the adjustments . . . would be no greater than those which normally accompany technological change." ¶ In Washington, Bernard Baruch had his say before the Randall Committee. Word leaked out that he had advised the committee to 1) "proceed with care in any adjustment" of tariff barriers, 2) take other types of trade obstructions into account. "At present," said Baruch, "the lack of stable currencies is a far more serious...
...student can gain such a fine technical or scientific background. The New York public schools which produced such notorious gangsters as Frank Costello and Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer have also sent a stream of eager youngsters out to fame, fortune and high public service. Among them: Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, Panama Canal Engineer George W. Goethals. Opera Star Rise Stevens, Singer Robert Merrill and Comedian Eddie Cantor. About two-thirds of last year's graduates went on to college this autumn and collected $2,500,000 in scholarships in the process...