Word: willingness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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It was true that Johnson had cut his civilian payrolls by 157,542-with 11,000 yet to go. And even his severest critics were willing to add that he had squeezed some fat and inefficiency out of the armed services. The trouble was that he had also ruthlessly sliced...
Though both Republicans and Democrats were solidly committed to FEPC in their party platforms, neither seemed willing to bring the fight for the bill into the open. By a 6-6 vote next day the powerful Rules Committee-which gives the red or green light for full-dress House debate...
Pertinent Questions. The skepticism was reinforced by Assistant Secretary of State John D. Hickerson, who brought up some painfully realistic facts. He raised a pertinent question: "Just how far are we willing to go in compromising our way of life and our institutions?" Was the U.S. willing to agree to...
Simon & Schuster tried $1 editions back in the Depression, but the public "thought that anything that cheap must not be any good," says Simon. But in 1943 Wendell Willkie's One World, published simultaneously in cheap and higher-priced editions, sold so phenomenally (1,400,000) that S. & S...
Laureate v. Literature. Yet almost from the publication of his first work, Britain's readers, critics and publishers alike proved more than willing to pay in praise and coin for the privilege of sharing his wonder. In 1930, after the publication of more than half a hundred volumes of...