Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Connally and his Senate colleagues had asked Acheson over to get some advice on what they should or should not do, in conscience, about the treaty. When Acheson finished reading a 40-minute summary of what the treaty was about, Connally asked the chief question that was bothering him and some of his friends. If a Senator voted for the pact, would he be committed to vote later for the $1.13 billion arms program to back...
...from the Senate to take a $12,000-a-year vacancy on the state's Supreme Court of Errors. Though the appointment was nominally for only eight years, it was traditionally a lifetime job, and 55-year-old Raymond Baldwin would be in line for the post of chief justice in four years...
...Anachoresiphobia, said Dr. W. A. Eggert, chief psychologist of the Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co., is responsible for many trucking accidents. It means a reluctance to back up when facing adverse conditions, the doctor explained...
...country's economic situation was desperate. For decades, Japan, one of the world's great trading nations, had supported itself from markets around the world; its best customers were the U.S., China and India. By ruthless seizure it was the master of fabulously wealthy Manchuria, the chief prize in the treasurehouse of the "greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere." When the war ended, the great trading empire was shattered. Gone also were four-fifths of the Japanese merchant ships that had carried her trade. Eighty-one million people (increasing at the rate of about one million a year...
...High Gear. The election would also test George Drew's leadership of Canada's chief opposition party, the Progressive Conservatives. When Parliament was dissolved last week, the Progressive Conservatives (Tories) held 69 of the House's 245 seats against 125 for the Liberals. Last January George Drew, 55, had given up the premiership of Ontario to become the Tory leader. In the federal Parliament he had been an outspoken, hard-hitting member. He had made things hum in the House, had thrown his party into high gear...