Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when a reporter asked last week whether he was still in that fight, Ike seemed to back away. Furthermore, it was increasingly clear that Defense Secretary Neil McElroy was in no hurry to present to the President a specific reorganization plan. McElroy's big move last week: to call for advice on reorganization from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Nathan Twining, and from ex-J.C.S. Chairmen Admiral Arthur Radford and General Omar Bradley...
...executive orders, appointments, etc., and parceled them out daily to make news under the Augusta or Gettysburg dateline. He encouraged feature stories on the Army Signal Corps' elaborate setup to keep Ike in close touch with Washington. He produced Cabinet members in wholesale lots. (Does Hagerty really call for Cabinet members? Says he: "Maybe sometimes I do.") He did anything and everything, in short, to keep the subjects of golf and fishing far down in the daily stories about the President...
...Italians call him the man who built modern Rome. Stocky, stingy and strongwilled, Romolo Vaselli, 75, has turned the Eternal City from a decaying, pest-ridden capital of 500,000 into a marble and concrete metropolis with a population (1,800,000) surpassing that of Augustus' golden days. He has also made himself, as city tax records certify, the richest Roman of them all, worth some 100 billion lire ($160 million...
...join forces with one of the two minor parties, vote down the government, compel a new election. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, watching the Liberal convention last week on TV from his bedroom, where he was recuperating from a wrenched back, gave back the challenge. He was expected to call for a new vote of confidence this week, dare the Liberals to deny it and go to the country...
...call for a general strike was issued by an underground organization calling itself the Patriotic Junta. Its appeal was aimed at forcing out perez Jimenez or at least gaining a voice in the government for the political opposition...