Word: agenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agenda for the conference...
...business sessions, the president and founder of the International Moslem Society, Abdallah Igram, 30, a grocery-store operator from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, led delegates through a simple agenda. One executive board decision: to pay the cost of special identification tags for American Moslems in military service which will read, "I am a Moslem. There is but one God, and Mohammed is his prophet." Igram was re-elected president for another year. Anxious to unite all scattered North American Moslems (estimated at 32,600) in his society, he disclaims militant proselytizing: "We don't want to convert others, just inform...
...struggle for Asia; the European alliance creaks with strain; riots and strikes in East Germany call for a sharper U.S. policy toward West Germany; at home, a new defense budget is tossed about in fuzzy controversy; new Government policies toward taxes, business, farming, labor are on the national agenda...
...little (pop. 260) Montreal, in North Carolina's thickly wooded Blue Ridge Mountains, 450 commissioners (delegates) of the 757,701-member Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern) met for their annual general assembly. No. 1 item on the agenda: a plan for merger with the Northern Presbyterians (2,500,000 members) and the United Presbyterians (300,000 members). The proposal had been discussed since 1938 and opposition to the idea was strong; in 1948 the General Assembly had postponed consideration of it for five years...
...sweeping powers to reform and reshuffle his vast department; 2) reciprocal-trade extension; 3) the continental-shelf bill to give the Federal Government control of offshore oil beyond state boundaries; 4) the Watkins bill to grant emergency visas to 240,000 Iron Curtain refugees, other aliens. Also on the agenda: routine appropriations, extension of the excess profits tax. Apparently overboard for this session: 1) Hawaiian statehood; 2) revision of Taft-Hartley; 3) simplification of U.S. Customs procedure...