Word: thereness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Acheson had turned his last careful phrase, Harry Truman allowed little time for rebuttal. Here, at last, was a package he could take to a restive Congress. Quickly he made his decision: he would side with Dean Acheson, overrule the Joint Chiefs of Staff. There would be no military...
Wherrymandering. But the hottest fight of all was building up within the ranks of the Republican Party. All through the last two sessions of Congress, it had been Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg who had beaten back the attacks of the isolationists within his own party. But his recent, critical...
¶Cartels are bad, but there is a place in the U.S. for "well-conducted big business." The chief threat to little business is not so much big business as "big instabilities in the economy."
Buffoonery or Eccentricity? The FBI's records showed that at least one prime piece of evidence-Judith Coplon's plan to go to New York on the day she was arrested there with Gubichev-had come through a tap on the Coplons' Brooklyn telephone.
There were no dramatics, only a kind of slow suspense. For most of the participants, and to some extent for Alger Hiss himself, the nation's most celebrated trial had become a kind of mechanical, well-mannered nightmare.