Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eisenhower said "military service is an obligation that every citizen owes his nation." The dilemma, he said, is that the military cannot discontinue its draft calls, and institute U.M.T. at the present time. The solution, he said, is to establish a commission to review "the policies that govern our whole military program" and "restudy the operations, functions, and acts of the Department of Defense...
...Republican administration was the first officially to establish collective bargaining when we established the Railway Mediation Board...
Since the increase would bring the coal miners' benefits up to the national standard, the Board would be almost certain to approve it. Raising the vacation benefits to the nation would not establish an inflationary precedent; it would give the miners most of what they want, but cannot have as a pay boost...
...gift was made to establish two annual national scholarships, Dickey stated at a special Dartmouth Night convocation marking the 100th anniversary of the death of Daniel Webster, a famous graduates...
...Moscow-a shift in Russian policy which may be of the greatest importance. The Russians may have decided that their aggressive policies have been too risky, and that they have more to gain by honey than by vinegar . . . We must not be deluded by Soviet attempts to re-establish the united front. But I do see a chance of long-run improvement." (A few days before, Secretary of State Dean Acheson expressed a similarly optimistic opinion despite the recent setbacks to his hopes marked by the barring of Ambassador George Kennan from Moscow...