Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Asked by a Washington reporter to comment on the partition of Ireland, Britain's Minister of Defense Emanuel Shinwell snorted: "I do not intend to mix in U.S. domestic politics...
...Republican Congress that passed the Taft-Hartley Act and cut taxes in a time of high spending. The Republicans have opposed Truman's health plan, and other parts of the Fair Deal. That party evidently does not intend to change its stand on these questions. Nor does it intend to back down on its program of attacking anyone whom party members may consider "leftist." It will keep on trying to pass legislation like McCarran Bill...
...speaking trip to the U.S. last week, Canada's Finance Minister Douglas Abbott had a confession to make. "Our public men [have failed] to tell our story in your country," he told a convention of bankers at Whitefield, N.H. "Today [I intend] to cast aside any restraining influence of that modesty which I hope is a Canadian virtue, and talk to you . . . unblushingly . . . of the virtual transformation which has been wrought in the Canadian economy within the past ten years...
...have discussed his schedule in a general way," Professor Emerson said, "and intend to get together later on" It is certain new that Bunche is to teach Government 170 (International Law) in September. He has also expressed an interest in colonial administration, and will give instruction and do research in that field...
Body Blow. On the air at week's end, CBS President Frank Stanton protested: "We do not want the future of color television to fall into the hands of any self-appointed group meeting in secret behind closed doors. We intend to do everything we can to prevent anyone .. . from blocking color television and keeping it from the American public...