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Word: pledgees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in line with Dulles' objective. President Eisenhower asked Congress to pass a joint resolution: 1) rejecting "any interpretations or applications of any international agreements or understandings made during the course of World War II. which have been perverted to bring about the subjugation of free peoples," and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: A Straight Shot | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

With pastepot and pencil. René Mayer tried to patch the twain. He and Foreign Minister Georges Bidault hurried across the Channel to see what the British could offer to placate the German-wary French Socialists. Britain stuck to its decision to stay out of EDC, but was willing to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: The Paper Cutters | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

Then he ran head-on into the blowup over stock holdings. In an effort to comply with the conflict-of-interests law, he resigned as president of the Sprague Electric Company (electrical and electronic parts) of North Adams, Mass., and got the board of directors to pledge that the firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Round Trip | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

Secret Gimmick. Almost everything in radio & TV needs a gimmick, and the memo had one. It was called "The Secret Gimmick about the Baby's Sex." This, too, required an inviolate pledge of secrecy until the release date this week: "The Ricardo baby will be a boy regardless of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Birth of a Memo | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

Republicans in Congress saw things in an entirely different way. Senate Majority Leader Bob Taft said he will stand by his pledge to cut spending to $70 billion. New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, who will be chairman of the Appropriations Committee, found the budget "so confused that it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BUDGET: 78000000000 | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

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