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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supervising the drawing up and spending of the defense budget. He was the man who had to slice the budgetary pie among the three services-each of which naturally wanted the biggest piece -and then explain and defend the budget before Congress, the Cabinet, and the National Security Council...
...their own fashion, Laotians last week gave a red-carpet welcome to the fact-finding subcommittee sent by the U.N. Security Council to determine formally whether Laos is a victim of foreign Communist aggression. There were no military bands, no spotless guard of honor, no protocol-wise assemblage of local diplomats. Instead, hundreds of lissome girls wearing flowing silk scarves and brilliant sarongs trimmed with gold appeared at the airport bearing silver bowls of flowers. It was the traditional Laotian "welcome in beauty," which requires that the wisest and most beautiful girls of a village greet an important stranger...
Trouble began when left-wing leaders of Sohyo, the General Council of Japanese Labor Unions, tried to pin the blame for the party losses on a right-wing faction accused of criticizing the Socialist campaign against the U.S. security treaty and of "opposing the description of the Socialist Party as a class party." The right-wingers, led by veteran 68-year-old Suehiro Nishio, who has the support of more than a third of the Socialist members of the lower house of the Diet, promptly walked out of the hall, agreed to return only on condition that the left wing...
Notably absent from the CCA list are Mayor Thomas McNamara, elected last January with some CCA support, and Councillor Al Vellucci. Crane, DeGuglielmo, Mrs. Wheeler and Mrs. Wise are currently members of the Council, while Edward Sullivan is a School Committeeman...
...endorsed candidates for City Council include Edward A. Crane '35, Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, Bernard Goldberg, Richard E. McLaughlin, Manuel Rogers, Edward T. Sullivan, Ralph W. Ward, Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler and Mrs. Pearl K. Wise. The candidates for School Committee are William S. Barnes, Assistant Dean of the Law School, Hester E. Byrnes, Joseph G. Dever, Mrs. Catherine T. Ogden, Gustave M. Solomons and Charles M. Sullivan...