Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minute hand on the gold-numeraled clock on his desk showed eight minutes after 10 a.m. as the President picked up his black pen and wrote across the document that lay before him: "Approved. Dwight D. Eisenhower." Earlier in the week, the Senate had passed by 72 votes (42 Republicans, 30 Democrats) to 19 votes (16 Democrats, three Republicans*) the Eisenhower Doctrine, which offers U.S. military and economic help to free nations to keep Communism out of the Middle East (see box). Now Ike looked up and said to Press Secretary Jim Hagerty, "The ninth...
When lecturers and instructors lambast "big business," the "Republican Old Guard," the Secretary of the Treasury, a balanced budget, the gold standard, Government economy, inheritance laws, and private ownership of certain means of transportation and media of communication, many students undoubtedly wonder why they are in the course. Certainly many Government concentrators wonder why they are required to take the course. When one of the lecturers declares that "this course will give you the answers to those questions" (concerning the proper role of Government), one wonders whether any course at Harvard is designed to "give answers." Rather, he thinks...
...week's end Nixon and party-including Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton, Congressman Charles C. Diggs Jr. (one of the three Negroes in the House) and Walter A. Gordon, Negro governor of the Virgin Islands-flew into Accra, capital of the Gold Coast, to represent the U.S. at ceremonies marking the transformation of that British colony into the independent Commonwealth State of Ghana...
...Gold of Naples. Italian Director Vittorio De Sica makes high comedy of low life in Naples, and wins some superb performances from Sophia Loren, Silvana Mangano, Toto and Vittorio De Sica (TIME...
...Gold of Naples. A great Italian director, Vittorio De Sica, makes high comedy of low life in Naples, and wins some superb performances from Sophia Loren, Silvana Mangano, Toto and Vittorio De Sica...