Word: enlisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leading contractors and 200 individuals, asking whether any business had been "solicited"' by former military men. Said Chairman F. Edward Hebert, who promises a full-scale investigation early next month: "The big names better come to protect themselves. If not, they'll become suspect. If you enlist brains for the sake of brains, there is nothing wrong. But if you enlist names for the sake of contacts, that is wrong...
...moving to the Senate floor, Strauss was still in deep trouble. Clint Anderson was working furiously against him, had made the Strauss case a Democratic confidence vote in Anderson himself. Lewis Strauss, no man to sit idle, was doing his own spadework. dropping in on Senators' offices to enlist support. An informal tally last week showed 46 Senators favoring Strauss, 45 against-and seven key votes undecided. Among those undecided was Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, whose decision might well make the difference. But Johnson was in no hurry to make up his mind: he planned to study the long...
This means that the more active, tub-thumping aspects of the Program will be halted while a reduced staff of workers set out quietly to enlist support from very wealthy individuals and very large corporations...
...they knew better. Their only hope for trimming down the second most powerful Congressman was to enlist the sympathy of Mr. Sam himself. Meekly, they wrote to him at his home in Bonham, Texas to petition for an interview. Carefully, they grapevined the gist of their case: they wanted nothing, really, except to increase the Speaker's own control over Smith's difficult committee. Perhaps, they hinted, Mr. Sam would add an extra liberal Democrat to the Rules Committee (eight Democrats, four Republicans), thus weaken Smith's coalition of conservative Republicans and Southern Democrats...
...Balkans to settle down in the Parisian suburb of Clichy. In twelve years he progressed from a ragpicker's cart to become a millionaire and one of France's top scrap metal dealers. At the outbreak of World War II, 34-year-old Joanovici tried to enlist in the French army. Turned down because he was still a Rumanian national, he sent his personal check for $3,000 to War Minister Edouard Daladier to help the war effort...