Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Some Republicans, determined to make Secretary of State Acheson a campaign issue, were ready to talk until election time. New Hampshire's Styles Bridges announced that a "whole group of Republicans," with himself as lead-off man, planned to "go after" Acheson. Ohio's Robert Taft said that he had encouraged Wisconsin's McCarthy to press his charges that there are Communists in the State Department, and told him "if one case didn't work out, to bring up another." Many responsible Republicans deplored McCarthy's antics privately, but most stayed publicly...
...Overriding Need. In this situation, Arthur Vandenberg sat down in his apartment and picked out a letter on his typewriter. The means he chose to make his influence felt were characteristically devised to offend his colleagues as little as possible. His letter made no reference to McCarthy or Acheson. He addressed it to Paul Hoffman; its subject was EGA, but it was obvious that Vandenberg was addressing many others...
...world as it is." Anyway, the Constitution was not involved, since no one has a constitutional right to a Government job. "If [the President] thinks that under present circumstances only those whose loyalty is beyond suspicion should be employed by this Government, the policy is his to make...
...rudeness, honest to the point of indiscretion, he holds his leadership by sheer intellectual prestige. He is a powerful check on any ill-advised experiment; in fact, his more liberal colleagues would be the first to admit that, while fighting them, he has often made their badly drawn legislation make sense...
...Hugo had a rare talent-he could make wonderful $5 bills. Said Secret Service Supervising Agent Harry Anheier: "I have never seen anyone who could rival him. His greens were wonderful...