Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulles' stiff statement came in a week of generally stiffening attitudes toward Berlin. Khrushchev began it with a brazen threat that any Western attempt to break through to West Berlin by force would bring nuclear war (see FOREIGN NEWS). In his press conference President Eisenhower promised: "We stand firm on the rights and the responsibilities that we have undertaken" on behalf of non-Communist Germany. And in a Washington speech to the National Press Club, West German Ambassador Wilhelm G. Grewe expressed his government's deep-seated doubt that the German crisis can somehow be solved...
...facing each other across a brace of microphones and a polished table in Montgomery, Ala. were deeply disturbed. Farmer Aaron Sellers, of Bullock County, a Negro, told of six attempts to register as an Alabama voter and six failures, including a time when he was warned, "Get the hell out of here." Behind the table, as Sellers' testimony ended, the president of the University of Notre Dame leaned grimly forward. Asked the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh: "Mr. Sellers, you going to continue to attempt to register?" Answered Sellers: "Yes, I'm determined to register." Said Father Hesburgh, smiling...
...reach and callousness of Alabama's discrimination. Said Commissioner John S. Battle, onetime (1950-54) Governor of Virginia and a leading advocate of segregation in public schools: "I fear the officials of Alabama and certain counties made an error in doing that which appears to be an attempt to cover up their actions . . . Punitive legislation may be passed which will be disastrous to the way of life of us in Virginia and you in Alabama...
...liberal-dominated Democratic National Advisory Council (among the members: Adlai Stevenson, Harry Truman, New York's Governor Averell Harriman and ex-Senator Herbert Lehman). The council urged greatly expanded federal programs in social security, health, education, agriculture, public works and welfare, area redevelopment and urban renewal, did not attempt to put a price tag on the proposals. Virginia's economy-minded Senator Harry Flood Byrd-no member of the council-did. His estimate: $5 billion or $6 billion a year...
...with windy ultimatums. Last week the Russians said again that unless the Western powers showed themselves ready to discuss the status of Berlin "in a businesslike manner," the U.S.S.R. would turn control of the ground and air corridors to Berlin over to the East Germans, and if an attempt was made to keep the corridors open by force, warned Khrushchev, "this would mean...