Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stock market had crashed. "Before the month was over," Norman H. Pearson narrates, "fifteen billion dollars in market value had been lost. By the end of the year, the total was an estimated forty billion. Whatever else happened, it was now obvious that the old reliance no longer obtained and that more and more people were beginning to realize this. What had second chiefy an ideological dilemma now became a dilemma in fact...
...statement of Francis' report made last night, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis paid tribute to the work done at the University in 1949 by Enders, Dr. Thomas H. Weller, Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Tropical Health at the School of the Public Health, and Dr. Frederick C. Robbins, a former associate of Enders and Weller, who is now at Cleveland's Western Reserve Medical School...
...Pearson's new quantitative theory of war was meant to make his policy more acceptable to the opposition, the strategy was a failure. Tory Foreign Affairs Critic John Diefenbaker sprang up as soon as Pearson finished and charged that the minister's original speech had been "watered down." Diefenbaker rapped Pearson for creating the impression that defense of Quemoy and Matsu would be a "bush fire" of no concern to Canada. Said he: "It is but fantasy to say that what might happen over there would not become an all-embracing conflict...
Comfort to the Enemy. CCF Leader M. J. Coldwell was equally critical for a different reason; he thought Pearson had gone too far in support of the U.S. "I do not want to see this country dragged into a war by [U.S.] policies," cried Socialist Coldwell. "It is about time that this government.. . spoke out against [them...
...China only as a jumping-off place for an attack on Formosa," Low said. "The U.S. should be given moral support . . . because of the importance of Formosa for the defense of the free people of southeastern Asia and even of America." As the other M.P.s spoke, Mike Pearson alternately twirled his horn-rimmed glasses and sprawled in his seat with hands in his pockets. He made no immediate reply to his critics. For the time being, at least, he evidently intended to stand by his rule-of-thumb for Canadian action. The rule...