Word: interment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assigned to her by the President in a climate of uneasiness which the smears and suspicions have created . . . Senator Wayne Morse and others have devoted themselves to undermining Mrs. Luce's usefulness. Senator Morse happens to be the chairman of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee, which has cognizance of inter-American affairs and Brazil...
...year the lending power of the Export-Import Bank (which does 40% of its business in Latin America) was boosted from $5 billion to $7 billion. The U.S. agreed before last week's meeting to contribute a major share in the initial $1 billion capitalization of a new Inter-American Development Bank. But the U.S.'s Delegate Thomas Mann, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, pointing to "the very heavy burden which the American taxpayer today bears in order to create a defensive shield for the U.S. and for the hemisphere," urged Latin Americans to woo private...
Dudley's social atmosphere was called "very gregarious," "jovial and merry," but also "rowdy," "lowbrow, unattractive," and "high-schoolish." The story is told about a Social Committee meeting some years ago which was voting on whether to accept the residential inter-House ticket for the Dudley dance. "No," said one commuter firmly, "we don't want those Ivy Leaguers at our party." Staff members took that as a danger signal, and commuters are now accepting more fully the social norms of their classmates--including ties and jackets in the dining hall...
...wide Operations Control Board, Herter began feeling restless about having, as he saw it, too small a role in State Department decisionmaking. When the gossip about Herter's frustration broke out in the papers, Dulles began gradually turning over to Herter some broad sectors of responsibility: congressional relations, inter-American affairs, the Middle East, nuclear-test-ban negotiations. Even in these sectors, Dulles and the President still made the top-level decisions (sending troops to Lebanon, suspending U.S. nuclear tests for one year), but Herter handled the day-to-day conduct of policy. Herter, for example, drafted the directives...
Although the Crimson has defeated Syracuse fairly regularly in this opener, the first race of a season is always dangerous to predict. This is particularly true now, since reports that only three of last year's six returning lettermen made the first boat this spring indicates strong inter-squad competition, an experience familiar to the Crimson, also...