Word: giving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Balanced Books. In Los Angeles, police searched for a man who held up a Salvation Army store, growled at his victim: "I've donated to the Salvation Army quite a bit. Now give me all the bills you have...
...give point to his promise, the President made plans to fly to Europe in late August for talks with West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in Bonn, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in London, and with France's President Charles de Gaulle in Paris. While in Paris, Ike will meet with Italy's Premier Antonio Segni and Foreign Minister Giuseppe Pella, NATO's Council President Joseph Luns and Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak...
...action [and] state officials can't do anything because the states have no authority. That leaves the worker and his employer in this no man's land ... So all too often the dispute is settled-if we can use such a word-by force ... I want to give the states authority ... I want the no man's land abolished...
Like Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman before him, Dwight Eisenhower met with stony stares when he urged Congress to give him the chance for an "item veto," enabling him to slice an objectionable section out of a bill without killing the whole bill with the veto ax. But last week Ike got rid of an obnoxious provision in a bill by what amounted to an item veto. Oldtimers in Congress said they could not recall anything quite like...
...payoff has been slight: a scant 480,000 tons of oil last year (compared to Kuwait's 70 million tons). But the promise is enough to give some substance to Charles de Gaulle's dreams of the grandeur of France. For if the Sahara's already proven oil reserves-conservatively estimated at 700 million tons-can be successfully tapped and marketed, France will no longer have to lay out some $300 million a year in hard-won foreign exchange to pay for the oil needed to keep French industry and transport running. More important yet, France will...