Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have indicated that it was the last word on the U.S. college graduate. Now it appears that the book is, in one respect at least, only the second-last word. The book (and TIME'S review of it as well) called Brown University one of "20 famous Eastern colleges," failed to include it as a member of the Ivy League. Brown is in the Ivy League, and the editors of the Brown Daily Herald have now had the last word. In an almost-forgotten TIME style which no ordinary college student would be old enough to remember, they wrote...
...Later, before the Senate Armed Services Committee, MacArthur testified that he had concurred in the decision to withdraw the troops from Korea. Around the time of the Mac-Arthur report, State Department's Far East ern experts and policy planners (among them John Davies, whose role in Far Eastern policy is still controversial) worked up a new policy paper (NSC-8/2) for the National Security Council. In it, MacArthur's advice was misrepresented: he was quoted as saying that the combat readiness of the South Koreans justified complete U.S. withdrawal, while his warning that the South Koreans...
...name stuck. So did Mieczyslaw's determination to find his real father. Before the war they had all lived together on a farm in eastern Poland. Then the Russians marched in, split Poland with the Nazis, captured Mieczyslaw's father, and moved mother & child, along with tens of thousands of other Poles, to Kazakhstan, where they were put to work on a Soviet collective farm. Mieczyslaw's father wrote later that he had joined General Anders' Polish army. Years went by. The war ended and Mieczyslaw and his mother were moved to a village near Breslau...
...million for Greece and Turkey, $350 million for foreign aid, and $597 million for Interim Aid the same year; for the Marshall Plan in 1948; for extension of ECA and for the Mutual Defense Act in 1949; for Aid to Korea (six months before the Korean War), the Far Eastern Assistance Act, and the $3.1 billion Foreign Economic Assistance Bill...
...vote to cut the foreign aid funds--so clearly opposed to his whole voting record on the subject--was a vote of protest against the weakness of the European effort. And Kennedy's amendment reducing Near Eastern funds from $175 million to $140 million (specifically eliminating any reductions in funds for Israel) was based on his belief that the program was poorly planned. On the floor of the House in June, 1952, he spoke unequivocally in favor of the Point Four Program. He explained this his on-the-scene investigation of underdeveloped areas in Southeast Asia and the Middle East...