Word: conferences
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indicated that he would support Powell's proposal if it became necessary, and if it could be worded to protect the purposes of the school-aid bill. If elected President, he said, he would 1) appoint a commission of white and Negro educational leaders in the South to confer and make recommendations, and 2) do all he could, if it became necessary, to deny federal aid to states that defied the authority of the Constitution and the courts...
...second post-coronary White House press conference, Dwight Eisenhower last week smoothly fielded every conceivable variation of the great question about his political future. When one reporter asked him to list the factors that would influence his decision on running for a second term, Ike made the obvious reply that it was primarily a question of health, of "the zip and zest that you can take into conferences when you have to get something done for the good of the U.S." Asked whether any members of his family objected to his running again, Ike goodhumoredly answered "No," thereby confounding...
...trip to India for a month's preaching, Evangelist Billy Graham, in Louisville for a laymen's conference at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, got a phone call from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Summoned to Washington, he reported, to confer with Dulles and President Eisenhower, Graham canceled a sermon ("Our Christian Heritage"), hopped a plane that evening. Next day, although he missed seeing Ike, Religious Diplomat Graham emerged from an hour's chat with Dulles in the Secretary's Georgetown home. He had got a solid briefing on India, told waiting newsmen that Foster Dulles...
...scientists will also tour the Boston Children's Hospital where Dr. John F. Enders, Nobel Prize winner, will confer with them. The Russians will visit Yale's Medical School, the University of Minnesota Medical School, and Johns Hopkins University during their stay in the United States...
...some questions about your political future?" The President did not dodge. "All of the considerations that apply to such things are complicated," he said, "and it takes not only a thorough studying of each one before you are ready to talk on them, but naturally I will want to confer with some of my most trusted advisers ... I would say that the presidency is probably the most taxing job on the-as far as tiring of the mind and spirit, but it also has, as I have said before, its inspirations...