Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain has pledged that no final solution of the Cyprus problem will be imposed without the consent of both Greece and Turkey, and Turkey's Premier Menderes has seized on the pledge to insist on partition. In London last week, where only a few days ago there were high...
When Gaillard, then Finance Minister, devalued the franc last summer, pressure eased. As Premier he courageously curbed credit and imports, decreased the subsidies that are the bane of the French economy. Understood in last week's aid agreement was his pledge to hold his tough line, keeping 1958'...
Honor to Civilians. From the start, the necessary removal of Pérez Jiménez' supporters in the armed forces was done with tact and no ugly rolling of heads. Gratefully, new Defense Minister Jesús Maria Castro León called to pledge the armed forces...
With gusto, he accumulated bishoprics (and illegitimate children). His taste for high life and ceremony was not merely personal; pomp and circumstance were a matter of public relations, an art in which Wolsey was a master. A high point of his career came when he stage-managed the futile but...
Old-Fashioned Thumpers. Disarray and disillusionment are also intense on the G.O.P. local level (notable exceptions: New York and California). The big contributors are refusing to kick in; Boston Republicans, who two years ago collected $1,200,000 at a pledge dinner, this year got only $75,000. Through the...