Word: needing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Onward, Christian Soldiers. "What we need to do," said John Foster Dulles long ago, "is to recapture to some extent the kind of crusading spirit of the early days when the missionaries, the doctors, the educators and the merchants carried the knowledge of the great American experiment to all four corners of the globe...
...sanctions." On that basis, the council directed A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany to lay the organization's objections before the House Education and Labor Committee next week. Even as the A.F.L.-C.I.O. leaders were meeting, a vastly powerful outcast from their ranks was dramatically demonstrating the vital U.S. need of new labor legislation. In Brownsville, Texas, Jimmy Hoffa, president of the thug-ridden International Brotherhood of Teamsters, threatened anarchy if the Kennedy-Ervin bill is made law. Cried Hoffa to a regional Teamsters' convention: "If such a law is passed, we should have all of our contracts...
...things do not happen that way in Ceylon. Constitutionally, the government need not resign unless it loses a vote on the budget-which does not come up until August. Besides, Bandaranaike quickly patched up a new alliance with Parliament's three Communists and 14 Trotskyites, who resent Gunawardena's energetic bid for personal publicity and power. Trading on the jealousies that divide Ceylon's varied Marxists, Bandaranaike hopes to serve out his term till 1961, and seems secure for perhaps six months...
...Agriculture study, "has not resulted in a satisfactory adjustment between population and land resources." Pressure has been growing against the latifundios ever since Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata raised his famous war cry of "land and liberty" in 1910. Many Latin American constitutions nowadays contain a fervent clause about the need for land reform. At a meeting of the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America last week in Panama, the 21 hemisphere nations recommended agrarian reform "whenever appropriate...
...M.I.T. Public Relations Office said, however, that Killian was resigning to devote full time to his new post of Chairman of the Corporation. When Killian was elected to the position last December, former Chairman Vannevar Bush emphasibed the "urgent need of Dr. Killian to assume his new duties at the earliest possible date...