Word: groups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week the President drove to Walter Reed Army Hospital to attend the swearing-in of Foster Dulles as a new $20,000-a-year special consultant to the President with full Cabinet rank. Because Dulles tires easily, the small group at the ceremony-Ike, Dulles, Nixon, Herter, Janet Dulles and a few others-sat down while the President read to Dulles this citation: "Your willingness to continue to contribute your abundant talents and unique experience to the service of the U.S. and the free world is but one more example of your magnificent spirit and devotion to the nation...
...What a life!" murmured one of a group of officers of the International Chamber of Commerce. He was commenting not on the pressures of his job, but on those of the President of the U.S., who last week dropped by the I.C.C.'s meeting at Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel. President Eisenhower, just returned from a 15-day golfing vacation at Augusta, shook his head, cracked: "After two days home, I'm about ready to go back...
Vice President Nixon's strong proposal that the U.S. lead in extending the rule of law to relations among nations (TIME, April 20) touched off ferment and comment in the major capitals of the free world. Last week a group of 26 Senators and Representatives-mostly liberal Democrats who have little else in common with Nixon-introduced concurrent resolutions in the House and Senate embodying their own proposals on how the rule of law might be achieved...
Where Nixon had urged a strengthening of the International Court of Justice, the Senate-House group called on the President to study strengthening and revising the U.N. Charter "to promote a just and lasting peace through the development of enforceable world law." Leader of the Senate group: Pennsylvania Democrat Joe Clark; House spokesman: Oregon Democrat Charles O. Porter...
Shortly past midnight a group of about eight or ten dark figures darted through the moonlight toward the Poplarville, Miss. courthouse. Opening a window, they slipped into the sheriff's office. They seemed to know that the jailer had gone for the night. They knew, too, that the cell keys were in a metal cabinet in the sheriff's office. Some of the raiders waited in the darkened second-floor courtroom, while a few others, wearing gloves and masks, pushed their way through the courtroom into the cell area just above. A voice barked and startled Prisoner...