Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Back home last week, Stratton told about the meeting. They had talked about 1960, but kept the conversation to issues rather than personalities. They had agreed that, because the G.O.P. is weak in Congress, it is up to big-state Republican Governors (like themselves) to write most of the party's record. Said Stratton of New Friend Rockefeller: "I found what I like to see. He's very progressive. I consider myself a progressive...
...bill seemed as good as law when it went to the desk of Republican Governor George Dewey Clyde, 60, a good Mormon who had never been known to raise his voice loudly about anything. But this time George Clyde spoke up, sent the Sunday closing bill back to the legislature with a surprising, stinging veto message. Reasons for the veto: i) the bill was "inequitable" to small merchants; 2) through it. big merchants were seeking "to regulate competition"; 3) Utah's rich seven-day-a-week copper mines, not specifically exempted from Sunday closing, might be "seriously affected...
Fifteen people, including Menderes' Minister of Information and Chief of Cabinet, the managing director of the Turkish Airlines, and an M.P., died in the crash. But back home, near the mosque on the Golden Horn where Adnan Menderes worships, the throats of 200 sheep were cut in gratitude that Menderes was among the ten survivors...
Take It or Leave It. To Makarios' suite at the Dorchester Hotel went Sir Hugh Foot, the British Governor of Cyprus, who has gained Makarios' confidence. For 90 minutes Foot made an urgent and eloquent plea to Makarios to summon up the courage to argue back with his advisers...
Greek Premier Constantine Karamanlis put it to Makarios bluntly. The Greek government was already bound by the Zurich agreement and had no intention of going back on it. Karamanlis laid down an ultimatum: take this agreement or bear the blame for wrecking the conference. With twelve hours to decide, Makarios spent the night "in prayer and reflection." Next morning at 8 he summoned his advisers, told them that he had decided to accept the agreement. The steamroller had worked...