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Word: invitee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Backfire | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Voice of the 84th | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Report from Robert Young | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

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...

Author: By John G. Wofford, | Title: U. of Washington's President Has Learned His Lesson, Miller Says | 4/15/1955 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: The Beleaguered Man | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

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