Word: aid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loan program, one of the glories of last year's National Defense Education Act, encourages needy potential schoolteachers and superior students of science and language. This year the Government is lending $30 million to 1,365 schools (which add $1 for every $9 of U.S. money) to aid about 120,000 students. The trouble is one small clause: every borrower must not only 1) swear allegiance to the U.S., but 2) file an affidavit that he "does not believe in, and is not a member of and does not support any organization that believes in or teaches, the overthrow...
...Billion for Aid...
...third major point, Kissinger spoke of the future of "uncommitted" nations. Denying that the United States should attempt to match all Russian programs in these countries, he affirmed that foreign aid is necessary. He expressed doubt that foreign aid will be decisive in shaping the loyalties of these new and underdeveloped countries. "I ame not at all convinced that the pedantic rules of Western policy, combined with a certain lack of energy, might not be less appealing than Moscow and Peiping," he added...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29--President Eisenhower has decided to ask Congress for a new foreign aid appropriation of slightly more than four billion dollars, including a substantial increase in funds for military assistance...
...represents a victory for advocates of a continued high level of foreign aid over those in the administration who have been more concerned with cutting costs in an effort to approach a balanced budget...