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This new management was best ex pressed in Eisenhower's choice of his Cab inet and sub-Cabinet. The majority of the men were called directly from business, in most cases big business. Businessmen realize this is as much a challenge as an opportunity. After 20 years of claiming they could do things better than the New Dealers, they now have the chance to put up or shut up. Fortunately, many of Eisenhower's appointees have had some past Government experience, and are approaching their problems not with preconceptions and radical solutions, but with a flexible, pragmatic attitude...
...from everyday life. The three reporters assigned to the trip met at Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station, then headed out for Long Island with the Secret Service in charge. Ike's Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson strolled slowly out of the Waldorf-Astoria without any luggage, took a cab to the southeast corner of 58th Street and Fifth Avenue. He waited only a moment before a sedan picked him up and whisked him toward Mitchel Field. There crewmen worked rapidly around two Constellations...
...Search. First he tracked down members of the jury, found that they were so confused by the judge's charge that a majority first voted to free Hoffner, then reinterpreted the charge and voted to convict him. Mowery also found that a cab driver, who testified at the trial that he had seen Hoffner in Brooklyn eleven miles away at the time of the murder, had been threatened by detectives with losing his license. Another witness, who also saw Hoffner in Brooklyn, was never called to testify...
...business-were moved into the controlling hands of boards and commissions whose members were appointed for specific terms. Hence, barring mass resignations, many of these boards will remain in Democratic control for some time to come. The Federal Trade Commission will not pass into Republican hands until next September. CAB will be controlled by Democrats until December 1953, the Interstate Commerce Commission until 1954. But businessmen hoped that the agencies would note the election returns. In short, businessmen looked forward to an entirely more flexible, more sympathetic approach to their many problems...
...last April. During his flight from St. Louis to Omaha on the first leg of his trip, his plane was ordered to land at Des Moines, with the explanation that the Omaha airport, threatened by the rising Missouri River, was shut down. Josephy and two other passengers hired a cab to take them 160 miles across Iowa to Omaha. Even the cab driver needed extra persuasion to cross the last bridge still open across the Missouri River from Council Bluffs to Omaha...