Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...registered the common complaint that Government agencies, bureaus, committees, staffs and boards interfere with quick and able decisionmaking. Contractors, he declared, are "bogged down in a labyrinth of advisers advising advisers ... We are often 'helped to death' by the hierarchy of Government agencies." Conflict-of-interest statutes defeat the Government's opportunities to hire the most able civilians for key posts. "We really cannot ask people to come down to Washington as experts for a problem as long as they have a vested interest in the very problem that they are trying to solve. This means that...
...Canada's Liberal Party, out of power since its upset defeat by the Conservatives last June, met in Ottawa lastweek to pick a new leader. The delegates' choice: Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, 60, former Secretary of State for External Affairs and winner of the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in creating the United Nations Emergency Force for the Middle East...
...Liberals, spiritless and ineffectual in the House of Commons since their defeat, showed signs of reviving confidence. In a noisy three-day convention watched by a nationwide TV audience of millions, speakers hotly accused Tory Prime Minister John Diefenbaker of antagonizing Canada's best customer, the U.S., with talk of diverting trade to Britain. The speakers linked the Conservatives' trade policies with Canada's economic slowdown and fast-rising unemployment...
...same time to production of nuclear materials for weapons. Dulles stood aside while Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Nathan Twining turned down the proposal, backed by AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss, Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson-and Dwight Eisenhower. Where the defeat left Honest Harold, no one was sure. Powerful Administration staffers hoped he would quit rather than be fired. But, said a Washington acquaintance: "His soundings to run for governor of Pennsylvania have not borne fruit. I don't know what he could do if he quits...
...East and has played excellent hockey this season. Marquis, at center, is the team's top scorer, and with 28 points for the season is second only in the East to the varsity's Bob Cleary. Cleary, with 30 points, was behind Marquis until the Crimson's 7-2 defeat of Princeton on Saturday, when Cleary scored five points to take the lead...