Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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State's policymakers for Europe are more cautious. They are inclined to agree with Foreign Operations Administrator Harold Stassen, who claims that European allies like Britain, France and Germany must be able to trade behind the Iron Curtain if their economies are to be kept healthy. To this the Far Eastern experts reply: "We are not positive that such tightened blockades would aggravate Communist troubles, but we think that such a course offers more possibility of developing friction among Communist countries than will ever be developed by trading with them...
...board of trustees, of the 1300 or so students who know they are getting an education that is second-rate. It springs from a college president who, though obsequious to the all-white board of trustees, rules the faculty-men and women of his own race-with an iron hand...
Beaty's career of public anti-Semitism began in 1951 with the publication of his book The Iron Curtain over America, hailed by Gerald L.K. Smith as "the greatest of its kind over to appear in print." According to a student at the University, Beaty's English courses consist chiefly of "reference after reference... made in a slurring manner against members of the Jewish faith...
...Corporation could, for example, assert itself on educational policy, but Corporation members would be the first to admit that they are not best fitted for academic decisions. The power lies with the Corporation but there has grown such an iron tradition of non-interference that its exercise is now sharply limited. Again, on paper, the Overseers could be rigorous in their supervision of the Corporation and the Administration. But in the twentieth century, the Overseers are more la pressure group than real authorities in the College government...
When the U.S. offered to take over the Vietnamese-army training last fall. French Commanding General Navarre denounced such interference. Navarre's successor, General Ely, is now quite agreeable to a U.S. training program under his own overall command. The U.S. plan, worked out by Major General John ("Iron Mike") O'Daniel, head of the U.S. Military Advisory Group...