Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to urge approval of the Administration's $1.8 billion military-aid program. But when he arrived on Capitol Hill, four-star General Norstad found a near-empty hearing room, with only two of the 15 members of the Foreign Relations Committee on hand to greet...
...member) United Auto Workers, fire-breathing Walter Philip Reuther is a powerful organizer, bargainer, administrator, politician, social reformer. In addition, red-haired Walter Reuther is a shrewd, smooth public-relations man. Last week, invited to Washington to appear before the McClellan committee, Reuther found a capacity crowd on hand for the fireworks. But any public-relations man could recognize that the time was wrong for fireworks. In Detroit tough negotiations between the U.A.W. and the big three auto companies were under way in a climate of depression and gloom, with few rank and filers in a mood to strike...
...Dictator Accepts. Every right hand in the hall except Khrushchev's shot up in favor of the motion. Khrushchev sat with bowed head. Cheers volleyed off the walls. Mikoyan and the others wrung the boss's hand. Khrushchev stepped to the rostrum to say with apparent emotion; "I shall do everything to justify your confidence and shall not spare strength, health or life to serve...
Crowded into Nairobi's Makadara Hall, some 4,000 Negroes cheered lustily as Kenya's Labor Leader Tom Mboya cried: "We reject a government which is based on an imposed constitution. No one will hand us freedom on a silver platter. We must be prepared to use our power-not guns and pangas-to achieve...
...fill a current vacancy on the United States Naval Academy's Board of Visitors, the President last week appointed an old hand at curricular problems: brother Milton Eisenhower, president of Johns Hopkins University. The job: to give Annapolis a three-day shakedown inspection once a year. The pay: $5 a day while...