Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Texan Johnson invaded the unfamiliar territory of Boston earlier in the week, and for the first time, after all the years of soft-pedaling criticism of foreign policy in the national interest, really opened up. He struck a cowboy pose atop a police man's horse and declared that the "basic issue in the campaign" was "trying to restore the prestige of the United States." In a speech to a Democratic gathering in Boston's Symphony Hall, Johnson hammered away at his point. "America no longer stands pre-eminent," he said. "Her friends are uncertain...
...Said he: "We cannot eliminate the old enemies of this hemisphere with temporary tactics." Was $500 million all the U.S. planned to spend for social reform? Did the Eisenhower plan mean that the U.S. was abandoning basic, long-range attempts to raise productivity? Would the U.S. provide longterm, low-interest capital loans repayable in the area's soft currencies...
Never before at an inter-American conference had the U.S. coupled such exalted goals with such hard promises of hard cash-loans for long terms, loans at low interest, loans in both hard and soft moneys, loans for social development. Dillon and his men sought out the delegates, spelled out the changed U.S. posture. They urged the Latin Americans to create an attractive climate for foreign investors and local capitalists, but made it clear that Washington no longer insists on private capital as the all-purpose solution for development woes...
...used in five years. The Treasury is offering holders of $12.5 billion in World War II bonds which mature between 1967 and 1969 the chance to turn them in for new bonds which will mature in 20 to 38 years. Bait to the bond owners is a 3½% interest rate on the new bonds (v. 2½% on the old ones). Treasury hopes $3 billion to $5 billion of the old bonds will be converted to the new issue. Chief advantage to the Treasury is that the plan will extend the maturity date on the national debt without disturbing...
...Marquand's last book is not a novel, but it is only his novelist's hand that saves it from being merely a literary curiosity. Good family boy that he was, Marquand never lost his gossip's and antiquarian's interest in the past of Newburyport, Mass., a place that was never long out of his thoughts in fact or in fiction. In 1925, before he had written anything better than hack historicals, he dusted off some old documents, ran down some dubious legends and wrote a book about a fascinating 18th century eccentric, Lord Timothy...