Word: endeavored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Treasury Secretary George Humphrey rose to speak, it quickly became clear that the Eisenhower Administration was not ready to assume trade-policy leadership. U.S. trade policy, Humphrey said, is to be studied by a commission headed by Inland Steel's Board Chairman Clarence Randall, and "I shall not endeavor to anticipate . . . this group...
...Supreme Commander Mark Clark dispatched a letter to North Korea's Kim II Sung and Red China's Peng Teh-huai. asking for resumed truce talks "in an earnest endeavor to achieve an early armistice." The U.N. Command is a military command, he said, and it does not control the sovereign South Korean government. By agreement, it is supposed to control the ROK armed forces; therefore, the Rhee government broke an agreement when ROK soldiers, acting on their government's secret instructions, aided and abetted the escape of 25,000 North Korean prisoners. But, Clark insisted...
Talking for the New York Times Magazine, James Caesar Petrillo, czar of the American Federation of Musicians, admitted that his unceasing war against any musical endeavor which does not turn a penny for the A.F.M. had plunged him into the already overcrowded field of expertising on the national defense budget. "I'm in the Pentagon on those service bands," said Petrillo. "I find out they got 187 of those bands. They got five in Washington alone, playing for some Congressman or other. 'Whaddya doin' with 187 of them and cutting $5,000,000,000 from...
...After 90 days, the political "peace conference" which will follow the armistice "shall endeavor to settle" the question of the P.W.s who have not applied for repatriation...
...private enterprise means anything ... it signifies the right of the individual ... to express himself, to venture and risk along new lines of endeavor, but equally ... to oppose and resist trends, political or educational, in favor of more traditional values which he believes to be more fundamental than the policies of the numerical or political majority . . . The function of [the independent school] is to keep alive and flourishing this element of critical independence in our national school system...