Word: accept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington the word seeped out that Speaker Sam Rayburn, permanent chairman of the last three Democratic National Conventions, will not accept that honorific spot again at next July's convention in Los Angeles. The chairman, Mister Sam feels, should be conspicuously neutral, and Rayburn's own all-out support of Fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson's presidential ambitions rules...
...What we have to do," says Robert Anderson, "is to maintain a strong and expanding economy, to accept the position of world leadership, and in that role to contribute as significantly as we can to a strong and expanding economy in the free world. Only thus can we help the development of the underdeveloped countries of the world. And that is the great economic challenge of our time...
...confidence, as if contrary views had been considered by him and then rejected, De Gaulle last week laid out his winter schedule. Nikita Khrushchev would arrive in Paris March 15 for a state visit expected to last as much as two weeks. After that, in April De Gaulle would accept the Queen's invitation to visit Britain, and perhaps follow it with a boat trip to the U.S. and Canada. Mid-May, therefore, might be appropriate for the summit. All this was a far cry from Eisenhower's original proposal for a December summit. But without expressing either...
...third, Britain and Europe. Of these three circles, Common-Market Europe-representing only 15% of Britain's trade-comes third. The British argue that they could not join the Common Market without weakening their ties with the Commonwealth (some Commonwealth members dispute this), or accept common footing with the continental countries without destroying Britain's "special relationship" with the U.S. Though no longer a dominant power, Britain thinks of itself as more than one of the middle or small powers. "We are for Europe, but not of Europe," is a familiar saying in British officialdom...
...Faith." The meeting between Kirby and Sonnabend went well enough. Kirby offered Sonnabend a seat on Alleghany's nine-man board; Sonnabend said he would accept. But hardly had the two parted when the deal exploded. Angry telegrams flew back and forth, and words began to fly about a proxy fight for control of Alleghany at the annual meeting next...