Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been paralyzed by Russian "noes"? The U.S. proposed to limit the veto rights of all the Great Powers-by eliminating the veto itself from procedural questions and applications for membership to which it now applied. From Yalta on, the U.S. had based its U.N. hopes on essential big-power agreement in the Security Council. Now, to stave off complete U.N. paralysis, the U.S. was ready to give the 55-nation Assembly a stronger voice in world affairs...
...great amount of favorable talk for General Ike Eisenhower. Massachusetts' politically wise Governor Robert Bradford told Candidate Dewey that he would not be a shoo-in for the 1948 nomination; Bradford said he thought an early-ballot nomination was not possible and some of the other governors nodded agreement. Take Massachusetts, said Bradford: its delegates were going to be for Favorite Son Leverett Saltonstall as long as he was in the running. Bob Bradford hastened to add that there was no thought of a stop-Dewey movement. That was all right with Dewey; his mission to Springfield...
...Communists, he fought for Chiang Kaishek. After Chiang split with the Communists, Liu went to the Moscow Military Academy. On the Communists' famous retreat into Shensi (1934-35), Liu negotiated with savage Lolo chieftains to give the Communists safe passage through their forests. To seal their agreement, Liu and the Lolos' high chieftain drank newly killed chicken's blood. They swore, in this ancient feudal ceremony, that whoever broke the agreement would end up like the chicken...
...There is solid agreement," reported TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin last week, "that Chen has done a notable job of bucking morale and tightening defenses. The midsummer gloom which had Manchuria all but lost to Nationalist China has noticeably lightened...
...ultimate agreement--reached in a plenary session tense with the crossfire of eloquent oratory called for a Constitutional clause affirming every man's right to equal educational opportunity, and a section of the by-laws looking forward to "the eventual elimination of segregated educational systems anywhere in the United States" with due regard for "the legal limitations involved." The crucial provision was complete regional autonomy. Despite this, conservative Southern leader Lloyd Teakle of Louisiana State University could privately remark: "I guess we can get this thing through back home. I'll just show them the Constitution and hope...