Word: internationale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Seattle to address a meeting of the 18-nation Colombo Plan, set up by the British Commonwealth in 1950 to foster economic development in Asia, the President listed five fundamentals of his Administration's widening foreign economic policy: 1) expanding international trade, 2) keeping up a program of...
Behind President Eisenhower's pledge of a "great peaceful crusade" lay hardcurrency news: the Administration's foreign-aid chief, Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon, is planning to ask the new Congress that convenes in January to appropriate $1 billion for the Development Loan Fund instead of...
Hubert Humphrey has come a long way from the damn-the-consequences liberal who first came to the Senate in 1949 after helping drive the South out of the 1948 national convention with a humdinging civil rights speech. "There is no radical movement in America today." he told a TIME...
Three-Time Loser. Beefy Alfred Dugan was a thug, and he had a long and varied police record. In 1941, already a veteran of two prison terms for narcotics-dealing and armed robbery, he drew a 12-to-15 year sentence for robbing a bank messenger of $108,000 in...
Bundy interpreted the election of Eisenhower as the popular choice of "a personality adequate in terms of knowledge, ability to delegate responsibility, unwillingness to undertake new ventures for their own sake--a balance between safety and responsibility." The qualities reflected public feelings toward international as well as domestic issues.