Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Konski, soaring high on oratorical wings, nearly persuaded the House to refuse $50 million in aid to Yugoslavia. Cried O'Konski: "I'd rather appropriate $1 billion to the Devil!" Only last-minute pleas by House Speaker Sam Rayburn and G.O.P. Leader Joe Martin saved the grant to Yugoslavia...
...West, Dulles continued, should be willing to grant a respite, if Russia was willing to pay the price. Essentially, the democracies want to apply a weed killer to Communist expansion and subversion of democratic systems. If the Communists truly desire peaceful coexistence, they would prove it by enforcing the Litvinoff Agreement of 1933 to terminate the international activities of the Communist Party. A second proof of Russian sincerity would be the reunification of Germany as a sovereign democratic state-neither "neutralized" nor satellite. A third proof would properly be the honoring of Soviet commitments, taken at Yalta, to permit self...
...first, in June 1868, was President Ulysses S. Grant, class...
...this point, rather than go through with the hearing, the State Department decided to grant Dr. Nathan his passport, asserting nonetheless that "the issuance of passports is a discretionary executive function." For Otto Nathan, getting ready for his trip to Switzerland, the outcome was clear and encouraging. "The State Department's action in issuing a passport to me," he said, "vindicates the fundamental right of every American citizen to travel...
...case until the Grand Jury returned its indictment. The University then placed him on salaried leave pending the disposition of the charges and removed him from the courses he was then teaching. Cornell has permitted him to continue to use its laboratories for his research activities under a grant from the American Cancer Society...