Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Noting the rise of Communist influence in Iran, on India's other flank, Eisenhower continued: "All of that position around there is very ominous to the U.S., because, if we lost all that, how would the free world hold the rich empire of Indonesia? So you see. somewhere along the line, this must be blocked and it must be blocked now. and that's what we are trying...
Knowland's voting record marks him as a middle-of-the-road Republican, e.g.,-he voted for the Taft-Hartley Act, supported NATO. As acting majority leader, Bill Knowland stumbled at the start but then took a firm hold. Bob Taft started the major bills through the Senate, but Knowland was the man in charge when the final push was needed...
Patchwork of Cliques. For a new leader, the country could hardly look beyond De Gasperi's own Christian Democrats, who hold 40% of the Parliament, against 35% for the Reds and Red Socialists, 13% for the Monarchists and neoFascists. But without a shrewd bargainer and clever parliamentarian like De Gasperi to coalesce them, the Christian Democrats are not so much a single team as a patchwork of conflicting blocs and cliques which stretch from modified socialism to near monarchism. As his first choice for new Premier, President Einaudi reached to the party's right wing and picked Attilio...
Thus, to the melody of Red Sails in the Sunset, a chorus of little girls hailed a Baptist camping ground now abuilding in New Mexico. It is just about big enough (2,000 acres) to hold the twelve tribes of Israel, and it sounds, from the description of its boosters, like a land of milk & honey. From all over the U.S., some 3,000 Baptist Sunday-school teachers converged on Glorieta for seminars and steak fries, lectures and horseback riding, hiking and hymn-sings. It was their first glimpse of the camp, which, when it is finished...
...high as 80%. Many cities set up Fair Rent Committees,' which will try to mediate disputes between landlords and tenants, but without real enforcement powers. Fearful that rent gouging would provoke enactment of local rent-control laws, the bigger real estate men announced that they would hold increases down to 10 or 15%, pleaded with other landlords to do likewise...