Word: agenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hawaiian statehood was the next item on Majority Leader Robert A. Taft's neatly drafted Senate agenda. And then, quicker than an humuhumunukunukuapuaa goes swimming by, the bill was set back for weeks and possibly months...
...agenda for the meeting, the Faculty's last of the year, does not include any direct statement that the Corporation's decision will be announced. Near the end of the schedule of subjects to be discussed, however, it is stated that Provost Buck will deliver a "brief message." This message is expected to concern the Corporation's final decision...
Churchill proposed "a conference on the highest level . . . between the leading powers, without delay. There should be no rigid agenda, jungle of details or armies of officials. The conference should be confined to the smallest number of powers and persons possible. There should be a measure of informality and a still greater measure of privacy and seclusion...
...allies are pledged, 90 days after a truce is signed at Panmunjom, to sit down at a political conference with the North Korean and Chinese Communists. The Panmunjom conferees, unable to agree on an agenda for the political conference, wrote it down months ago only as "the Korean question, etc." The "etc." seems likely to stretch over all the complex problems of the Far East. In a general settlement, what might the U.S. give and take...
...Lincoln findings have been on the National Security Council agenda for at least five of the seven weekly meetings of the council. They have been actively discussed each time. The Lincoln findings are also being studied in detail by two important advisory groups, whose verdict the President has indicated he will probably accept. One group-the "Seven Wise Men" as they are called at the White House-was formed by the President himself to consider the level and nature of the American defense effort. The other-a special committee on the air-defense problem headed by Mervin Kelly...