Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington Post), but he has learned to read between the lines of inspired political stories as well. Thus, over the past few weeks, he began to feel that he was being pressured by inspired "leaks" about the future of Charles E. Bohlen, bright star State Department careerman of the Roosevelt and Truman administrations, longtime (1953-57) Ambassador to Russia, and since 1957 U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines. His friends let out word that Bohlen would soon come home from Manila to head a State Department policy-planning group dealing with Soviet problems. A later story from unnamed sources in Manila...
...Labor Committee's 30 members, developed an easy ally in Chicago Democrat Roman Pucinski (A in the book) and half a dozen others. Zagri also appeared before the committee as an expert witness, and offered no fewer than 59 pages of bill-gutting amendments. Teamster-touting Democrat Jimmy Roosevelt (A) of California introduced the Zagri proposals as a substitute bill...
...Damn Lie." The Teamsters' power plant began to backfire. Speaker Sam Rayburn, told that Jimmy Roosevelt and Zagri were claiming that Rayburn was in favor of their bill, sent out a plain comment: "It's a damn lie." Mr. Sam called in the hardest-pressed of the committee members, particularly freshmen, to assure them that the Speaker himself would campaign for any man put in serious trouble by Zagri's efforts. Labor Committee Chairman Graham Harden of North Carolina growled threats about investigating "brazen outside influences...
...felt about the dangers of inflation, Ike last week vetoed a housing bill because he considered it inflationary. His words-and a torrent of warnings from every quarter-had awakened the nation to the perils of new inflation. As it met with labor last week in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel, steel management was keenly aware of that peril-and of a second danger that followed directly from it: a growing threat to American steel in world markets from foreign competitors...
Almost from the start, the U.S. industry was scarred by a series of violent, bloody strikes. Labor did not succeed in organizing the industry until 1937, when the door was opened by U.S. Steel. President Roosevelt persuaded the late Myron C. Taylor, then Big Steel's board chairman (and later Roosevelt's personal representative to the Vatican) to make a contract with the United Steelworkers, the first in the industry...