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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foreign Relations. Congress should authorize U.S. membership in the proposed international Organization for Trade Cooperation and in the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency. "The world has so shrunk that all free nations are our neighbors. Without cooperative neighbors, the U.S. cannot maintain its own security and welfare." Besides keeping up military assistance, the U.S. must continue to give "aid to our friends in building more productive economies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: State of the Union | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...interest rates, and, in effect, peg the debt level for every businessman and private citizen in the U.S. Another suggestion is that the FRB's responsibility for backing the Employment Act be written into law. While FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin assumed' that he must help maintain full employment, no such basic mission is contained in the original charter. ∙ But while everyone wants a study, the question of who will make it has already touched off a hot political argument. Representative Patman and Illinois Senator Paul Douglas, both jealous guardians of congressional prerogatives, have put in their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: US FINANCIAL SYSTEM: U.S. Financial System | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...quick to lay out reassurances for some of the doubts that had worried congressional leaders in earlier conferences at the White House. Even if Congress grants him stand-by power to use force, he will maintain "hour-by-hour contact" with Congress in the event of crisis and recall Congress if it has adjourned. The new doctrine will not bypass the U.N., but will enable the U.N. to tackle the internal problems of the area, e.g., Israel's borders, with less fear of external aggression. And as for the nagging fears of Arab nationalists that the U.S. might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: A Call for Joint Action | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

France is still almost obsessively committed to the proposition that possession of Algeria is essential if France is to maintain its status as a world power. At the moment, the U.S. is unwilling to press the French too hard or too fast. Both Tunisia and Morocco, though nominally independent, are economically dependent on French subsidies to keep their governments operating, need time to develop their own resources and tax systems. Bourguiba says that he is unwilling to make any formal commitment to the West until his country is fully independent in fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH AFRICA: The Ideal of Maghreb | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

Many of 40,000 people sitting in the Stadium contributing their five dollarses were Harvard alumni, who maintain a folk custom of keeping in touch with the old place by returning on Fall weekend pilgrimages. It's probably better to have them come than not come, for they are encouraged to give money when they taste the dust of Harvard Square on their tongues once again. They can hope for a Crimson victory; but we wish that they wouldn't expect it. Even the suggestion that Harvard alumni would consider a winning football eleven as continuing assurance that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Fumbles | 1/8/1957 | See Source »

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