Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last summer Congress was convinced that the Yugoslavs, despite massive injections of U.S. aid ($1 billion since 1949), were cozying up to the Kremlin. Under Knowland's prodding a rider to the Mutual Security Appropriation Act banned any new military assistance to Marshal Tito in fiscal 1957 except for maintenance and spare parts. Congress also stipulated that the Administration cut off all aid authorized in previous years and still "in the pipeline," e.g., some $100 million in military hardware, including some 300 Sabre-jet fighter-bombers. The cutoff could be waived if two conditions were met: i) that...
...beyond the skulduggery of any individual, even a Dave Beck. It goes to a fundamental U.S. proposition: that labor and management, through their mutually honest efforts at collective bargaining, shall both thrive in a free economy. It was to correct a management-weighted imbalance that the Wagner Labor Relations act (John McClellan voted for it) was passed in 1935. But that, in turn, created an equally oppressive, labor-weighted imbalance that even the Taft-Hartley law (McClellan voted for it, too) failed to remedy. Unchecked by restraining laws, some labor leaders became racketeers and some racketeers became labor leaders, using...
...Cameroons became something called a "State Under Trusteeship." Last week ambitious and outspoken Andre-Marie Mbida,.an ardently anti-Communist Cameroonian tribesman who once studied for the Roman Catholic priesthood, took over as Premier, with a Cabinet of whom eight out of nine are blacks. As his first official act, Mbida gave France's Overseas Minister a shiny new Cameroon medal...
Died. Povilas Zadeikis, 70, Minister to the U.S. from Lithuania since 1935; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Like the former representatives from Latvia and Estonia, Zadeikis stayed on after the Soviet Union incorporated the three little countries in 1940 (an act of conquest never recognized...
...letter points out the the incident has been looked upon by the Japanese public "as an act of unimaginable rudeness to a foreign guest." The professors go on to say that Tsuru has been criticized in the Japanese press both for having answered the subcommittees' questions and for supposedly giving secret testimony, a charge the letter calls "groundless...