Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along with numerous other men I know who served in Japan or are still serving there, was thoroughly disgusted and shocked at the way American women and children conducted themselves on foreign soil. I have seen women practically naked running the streets half "shot" and fully "shot," have heard them use language that a 30-year sergeant would blush to hear...
...White House's Cabinet room, Vice President Nixon got a rare burst of applause for his hour-long report on his fortnight behind the Iron Curtain. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, back from Geneva and scheduled to take off this week for a meeting of the American republics' foreign ministers in Santiago, Chile, reported on the Big Four foreign ministers' conference on Berlin, which ended in stalemate after 65 days of futile negotiations (see FOREIGN NEWS). But the Geneva gloom was lightened by hopes of results from Premier Nikita Khrushchev's two-week visit...
...Despite a generation of Communist propaganda, the Soviet people do not believe that Americans are villainous. After seeing spontaneous demonstrations for the Nixon party, an American who had known Russia in Stalin's day said: "I had to pinch myself to be sure I wasn't dreaming...
...fellow Americans," said President Eisenhower, looking squarely out from the nation's TV sets one night last week. "I want to speak to you tonight on an issue of great importance to every man, woman and child in this nation. It is above any partisan political consideration. It affects every American regardless of occupation, regardless of political affiliation. I speak of labor reform legislation...
BLACKMAIL PICKETING. "Take a company in the average American town-your town. A union official comes into the office, presents the company with a proposed labor contract and demands that the company either sign or be picketed. The company refuses because its employees don't want to join that union . . . Now, what happens? The union official carries out the threat and puts a picket line outside the plant, to drive away customers, to cut off deliveries. In short, to force the employees into a union they do not want. I want that sort of thing stopped. So does America...