Word: program
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Museum Piece? The real objection, in many Senators' minds, was not to the pact but to the arms program. Dulles and Arthur Vandenberg said they were two separate matters. The State Department thought they were linked by implication but actually independent...
Other charitable projects include research in rheumatic fever and dementia praecox, an extensive hospital-visitation program. U.S. Masonry in 1948 spent more than $9,000,000 on various philanthropies (the figures are incomplete since the order does not advertise its charities...
...another satisfying apex of his life. He had given himself unstintingly to Shrine activities. He had been Al Malaikah Temple's Potentate. For the past seven years he had worked among the Shrine's crippled children's hospitals, had been a director and trustee of that program, which is a substantial and sober part of Shrine activities. It maintains 16 hospitals, annually raises millions of dollars through its circuses, East-West football game, annual dues and local contributions...
...Western Union's land forces. General de Lattre has long believed and argued that Western Union's land forces would have to bear the first brunt of any attack from the East, must have the appropriate priorities. He also believes that Western Union's land-defense program must eventually be fitted into a larger plan for all the Atlantic pact signatories. Not much can be done with this larger plan until the U.S. Congress decides how much (if any) arms aid it is willing to give to Western Europe...
Current London jargon divides crisis solutions into "short-term," "middle-term" and "long-term." The finance ministers' meeting sought results in only the first two categories. The short-term program called for a ?60 to ?100 million cut in imports by the rest of the Commonwealth (excluding Canada) from the dollar area. The middle-term scheme was a new pattern of trade and production so that the sterling area could produce more of the supplies now being imported for dollars. What Whitehall calls "the multilateral stuff" (longterm) will be left for further talks in Washington this September...