Word: nation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 19--President Eisenhower, calling today a "sad day for the nation," ordered government lawyers to ask a federal court to send 500,000 striking steelworkers back to the mills for 80 days...
Balloting in the General Assembly was suspended for two weeks after a see-saw race developed. Turkey's three-vote edge, its best showing so far, gave the West new bargaining strength in the intense diplomatic maneuvering for the seat on the 11-nation Council...
...prepare the case that eventually voided President Roosevelt's seizure of Ward's during a 1944 labor dispute and masterminding the successful proxy battle against Raider Louis Wolfson in 1955. Barr still admires his old boss, refuses to criticize him. Says he: "He was one of the nation's best merchandisers. He grew old, that...
...Charles Greenough Mortimer, 59, was elected chairman of General Foods Corp. He will continue as chief executive officer, a post he has held since 1954, when he was named president of the nation's largest packaged-food processor (Jell-0, Maxwell House coffee, Birds Eye frozen foods). As chairman, a previously vacant post, Mortimer will concentrate on the company's future growth and development. Succeeding Mortimer as president is Wayne C. Marks, 55, who will also be chief operating officer. Marks joined General Foods in the position of clerk in 1926, was appointed executive vice president...
...nation's No. 1 seedbed for future corporation presidents has long been Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration. Last week European leaders gathered at Fontainebleau Palace, south of Paris, to inaugurate a Harvard-style Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires. Chief purpose of the new Institut will be to train a whole new generation of European businessmen capable of operating the expanded businesses made possible by the European Common Market...