Word: agenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There can be no concrete agreement of any kind in Geneva. Perhaps there may be some understanding of the broad outlines of an agenda for discussion of the problems of Berlin and Germany at the summit conference," he said...
Later in the evening, the Council quashed a move by President Edward L. Croman '60 to move closer to the House Committees, as it verbally defeated his suggestion to change Council meeting to Thursday night so that House Committees might be able to discuss the Council's weekly agenda at their meetings...
...president, who has been attempting all term to promote greater House Committee interest in Council matters, indicated that his colleagues' disapproval was "a big mistake." He added, however, that he would urge the House committees to shift their meeting times so that they could discuss the Council's agenda...
Discontent seethed through a knot of delegates last week as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce sat down in Washington for its 47th annual meeting. A top item on the agenda was an annual policy statement that was expected to repeat the chamber's traditionally liberal view of foreign trade, plumping for reduction of tariffs and elimination of quotas. Only a week before, four Congressmen at the biennial meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce in Washington had warned that protectionism is on the rise in the U.S. Now a group of chamber members set out to prove it. Representing...
...after day last week Peking's red-pillared Hall of Encompassing Benevolence rang with the synchronized frenzy of the 1,200 trained seals who make up Communist China's National People's Congress. One subject not originally on the agenda caused the most heat. The subject: Tibet. "The Tibetan reactionaries," sneered Premier Chou Enlai, "often put on pious airs and express the hope that everyone will go to heaven. But they have turned Tibet into a hell on earth." Another speaker charged that "the British imperialists and Indian expansionists instigated the Tibetan upper-strata reactionary clique...