Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also sideswiped President Hurley. It filed suit in Chicago's U.S. District Court against Hurley for violating price ceilings, asked triple damages of $150,000. Hurley said he was "damn mad," got set to fight OPA "until the cows come home." He wants OPA to retract and admit that, under the circumstances, there were no dirty dealings. Many an other appliance maker got ready to side with Hurley, turn this into a full-scale test of OPA's reconversion price policy...
Abstention on Expansion. Fur flew on a proposal to admit Australia, Brazil and Yugoslavia to the Council's Central Committee. The Russians objected, apparently because no instructions had been received from Moscow, even to inclusion of friendly Yugoslavia. After the motion was defeated, Russia requested that her negative vote be converted to an abstention...
...UNRRA observers to oversee the distribution of relief, but were willing to cut their original $700,000,000 request to $320,000,000. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William L. Clayton and Britain's Philip Noel-Baker agreed to offer Russia $240 million and still insisted that Russia admit observers. The conference ended with the still-unsettled Russian question in the lap of the Central Committee...
...days later the results came in. Bulgaria suddenly decided to admit seven U.S. reporters who had been cooling their heels outside. Poland promised immediate entry to the three wire services, agreed to let in more newsmen later...
...reply to Chiang: "I shall consider the question of meeting you after you express your opinion about General Chu Teh's telegram." This was followed by another telegram from Chu Teh, demanding Communist co-authority to receive the surrender of Japanese forces. "You must publicly admit your mistake," said Chu Teh to Chiang, "and publicly retract your order. . ..." The alternative: civil...