Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hagerty at his side. Said Nixon: "I informed the President that in the event the President and the delegates to the convention reached the decision that it was their desire for me to serve as the nominee of the Republican Party for Vice President, I would be honored to accept that nomination . . ." Added Hagerty: "The President has asked me to tell you gentlemen that he was delighted...
Increased U.S.-Soviet trade is desirable on several important counts. If the free world is, as it seems, bound to accept a prolonged state of coexistence with the Soviet Union, healthier commercial intercourse between East and West will lead to a less tense and precipitous atmosphere. Rehabilitated US-USSR trade would also allow other non-Soviet nations to relax their trade relations with the Soviet bloc, and could provide them with new markets free of the prohibitive dollar-gap difficulty...
...eliminate these obstacles the Administration must yield considerably. It must change its strategic classifications to release commodities which do not directly and significantly contribute to Soviet strength. Accompanying these releases should be a stipulation tying Soviet purchase demands to American export items, to compel Russia to accept consumer items if she is to receive newly-released goods from...
...fear of Stalin that made Khrushchev accept the job of secretary of the Moscow region party committee in 1949. Three years later, at the 19th party congress, it was plain gratitude which made him say, "Our beloved Stalin, great leader and genius-like teacher," as he accepted one of the ten key secretaryships of the new party Central Committee. The truth was Stalin liked and encouraged Khrushchev. Immediately after the dictator's death Khrushchev had inherited enough of Stalin's power within the party structure to take over the party secretaryship, Stalin's old job, from Georgy...
...living Deputy Francesco Moranino, who was only 24 when he commanded the 12th Garibaldi Division of Red Partisans in Italy's northern hills and styled himself, in the local dialect, Gemisto-the Devil. The Communists hailed him as a patriotic hero; the country was in a mood to accept their estimate, and De Gasperi made him an under secretary in his 1947 Cabinet...