Word: prior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. José Antonio ("Chichi") Remón, 46, President of Panama since 1952, prior to that his country's president-making police chief; at the hands of machine-gunning assassins, at Juan Franco race track outside Panama City...
Dean Bundy turned down the suggestion in a recent letter to McKay, citing as precedent a refusal by former Provost Paul H. Buck, made on the same request in 1952. Prior to that time some courses had used a similar procedure...
Ward, expressing similar confidence, also noted that Business School application figures were not affected when the government withdrew GI privileges prior to the Korean...
...allies before nuclear weapons could be used. After dinner with Eden, Dulles pulled out his omnipresent yellow scratchpad, scribbled out his own resolution. Next day both Eden and Mendès-France dropped their proposals, and the council adopted the Dulles plan within 30 minutes. It provided for consultation prior to use of nuclear weapons by NATO forces, but it did not set rigid rules or tie the hand of such non-NATO forces as the U.S. Strategic Air Command...
...urged his coalition leaders to be still on the explosive issue of the Saar. To quiet the opposition Socialists, he summoned their roly-poly leader, Erich Ollenhauer, to his office in Palais Schaumburg, asked him to sit down, then read aloud several Ollenhauer speeches arguing for Big Four talks prior to ratification. Der Alte then picked up the latest Soviet note proposing Big Four talks, and read a portion from it. The two were strangely similar. Ollenhauer, an antiCommunist, sputtered with rage as Adenauer made his point: "Herr Ollenhauer. these are your words and this is the Soviet note...