Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last day of his third year as President of the U.S., Dwight Eisenhower addressed himself, publicly and frankly, to the prime political question of the U.S. and the world. Before his 77th formal press conference, crowded by 290 reporters, cluttered by the paraphernalia of TV cameras and cables, the President read out a telegram he said he was sending to Harry E. Jackson, the deputy secretary of state of New Hampshire...
...President had written formal thanks into his prepared speech. But, finding it unequal to the occasion, he interpolated feelingly: "The heart is so full that it is indeed dangerous to try to say more than 'Thank...
Besides hockey, the bobsledding and giant slalom events will inaugurate the seventh winter Olympiad. Yesterday, two preliminary hockey games were played after the formal opening of the Olympic Games by Italian President Giovanni Gronchi...
...first formal press conference since becoming U.S. Army Chief of Staff last summer, General Maxwell D. Taylor proclaimed "real progress" in the development of Army guided missiles. His men were already using a missile (developed with the help of the German scientists who worked on the original V-2 rocket) with a range well exceeding 200 miles. In partnership with the Navy, the Army is working on a medium-range missile with a hoped-for effectiveness of 1,500 miles. "These missiles," said Taylor, "will give our forces tremendous destructive firepower ranging far ahead of and above our front lines...
Dawes got the job on his terms, and under the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 the U.S. got the first semblance of formal balancing of revenue and expenditures in its 132 years. With all his Hell 'n' Maria* fiscal evangelism, Charlie Dawes moved fast to establish the prestige of the Budget Bureau. At his urging, the President called a special Cabinet meeting. Said Dawes to the assemblage: "A Cabinet officer, as I see him, is on the bridge with the President, advising him on the direction in which the ship shall sail. He will not properly serve...