Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Just after the news," wrote Pearson, "Vice President Nixon went to the home of his intimate friend [Deputy Attorney General] William Rogers, at 7007 Glenbrook Road, in nearby Maryland. This was in the dark hours when the President was so sick he was blinded in both eyes . . . The Vice President...
Tomorrow's Consequence. Trembling with anger, dapper Antoine Pinay climbed back to the Assembly rostrum. "Twice I have warned the Assembly of the consequences of a violation of the Charter. An assault of passion and demagogy has led the Assembly to disregard the recommendations of its General Committee . . . My...
Brazilians were inordinately coup-conscious last week because General Canrobert Pereira da Costa, the respected chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, had made it painfully clear in a weekend speech that top military men were prepared to consider "intervention" if it seemed to them that the October presidential election...
Died. Adolfo de la Huerta, 74, onetime revolutionary Mexican political leader, Provisional President of Mexico for seven months in 1920, between the assassination of President Venustiano Carranza and the election of General Alvaro Obregón; of a heart ailment; in Mexico City. An original member of the revolutionary movement...
At the moment, OTC is stalled in House and Senate committees, and neither Democrats nor Republicans are pushing it. The high-tariff bloc and the protectionists are leagued with a group with a vague fear that the U.S. could eventually lose part of its sovereignty through OTC. Some opponents have...