Word: 38th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wearing the overseas cap of Whittier American Legion Post No. 51, of which he is a member, Vice President Richard Nixon stepped before 6,000 cheering fellow Legionnaires and guests at the closing session of their 38th national convention in Los Angeles last week to make his campaign speech. He took aim, point by point, at the speech made from the same platform 24 hours earlier by Adlai Stevenson...
...38th honorary degree. As a rule the President accepts at least two honorary degrees each year, carefully choosing the schools to achieve a cross section of geography, size, and religious or secular orientation...
Opera is hard enough to produce in the opera house, where the conductor is only 20-odd feet from his cast. On TV it is twice as hard: the conductor is in another room. This week the NBC Opera Theatre televised its 38th opera production, Mozart's masterpiece, The Magic Flute, two hours of soaring music and symbolic drama, beautifully sung and bewitchingly visualized in color...
...battering the enemy to the job of armistice negotiator. At the start, he still held the old-fashioned notion that a line might well be drawn at the points where the belligerents faced each other when one of them cried quits. The Reds said it should be the 38th parallel, which would have given them territory for which the Allies had paid in blood. And thus, a man who had nothing but an Annapolis education, the habit of command, and all the power of the United Nations, confronted men who had nothing but a million defeated men and Marxism...
...Kliment Voroshilov, chairman of Russia's Supreme Soviet Presidium, he sent a personal letter marking the 38th Soviet national anniversary. ¶Significantly omitting a laborious presidential task of personally receiving new foreign emissaries, his staff announced routine receipt of accreditations for the new Ambassadors of Lebanon, Laos, Luxembourg, Iceland and Pakistan. ¶Through Acting Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. he conveyed a plea for restraint in the Middle East (see below). ¶With "deepest regret," he accepted the resignation of Bernard M. Shanley, White House appointment secretary and former presidential counsel, who left to "resolve some...