Word: councill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Silent Nourse. Dr. Edwin Nourse, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, missed the hearing entirely. Dr. Nourse, a tall, white-haired man, is an able, middle-of-the-road economist who was once vice president of Washington's Brookings Institution. He skipped nimbly out of town, evidently too horrified by the idea of an anti-inflation bill to get into the argument...
...international law and diplomacy at Columbia, he worked hard at the theory of law among nations, learned the frustrating practical side of it as assistant solicitor to the State Department, and as an aide to tough old Elihu Root at Geneva. He was assistant secretary general of the first Council session of UNRRA, played a part in the birth of U.N. at San Francisco. Last year Harry Truman made him deputy U.S. representative to the U.N.'s Little Assembly...
...Budapest's state penitentiary last week, Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty waited for action on his appeal against the court's sentence of life imprisonment. The ruling would be made by the National Council of People's Courts, Hungary's highest tribunal. Hungarian officials said that, whatever Mindszenty's final sentence, he would serve it in one of the country's "foremost penal institutions...
...approved Argentine fashion, the union's officers had taken their demands to the Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare, the preserve of María Eva Duarte de Perón. The secretariat, acting on hold-the-line advice from the nation's new economic council, met the union's demands only halfway. When their Peronista officers failed to protest, the union's rank & file revolted...
Indications last night were that the Student council, under whose jurisdiction the committee falls, would investigate the situation...