Word: invitee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The party caucus is a good way for congressional leaders-when they know they have a majority behind them-to swing a minority into line on legislative issues. But to hold a caucus without a majority is to invite a stinging rebuff; party discipline is shattered, and more often than...
Said George: "There exists, unfortunately, in this country a disposition to hinge all policy in the Far East on what the President does about Quemoy and Matsu. If it would advance the cause of peace, I would be happy for the President to declare his policy. But how would it...
Financier Robert R. Young this week totted up the final cost of his proxy fight last year for control of the New York Central Railroad. The bill came to $1,300,000 (v. the $100,000 he had "hoped" it would cost). Young disclosed in a letter to stockholders for...
Miller spoke at the Harvard Club of Seattle after receiving an honorary degree on April 5 from Gonzaga University in Spokane. He said that in Seattle there has been "immense public discussion" over Schmitz' veto of a request from the department of Physics to invite Oppenheimer for lectures this summer...
But his advisers-including those from the U.S.-cautioned him to go slowly. You are too weak to fight now, they counseled. Invite negotiations; play for time. The advice was accepted. While soldiers and tanks moved through the tense streets of Saigon, the weanling government of the weanling state of...