Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real harm to the U.S. position in the world. Said Foreign Relations Chairman George: "I regard the publication of these papers at this time as unfortunate. This action will make it difficult to have conferences with those nations with whom conferences must be had if we are to make progress toward world peace and stability...
Inspecting the floral wonders, Ike admired the azaleas ("I love those") and an enormous (3 ft. across) African violet, fingered some rare orchids, tossed seven quarters in a series of wishing ponds, accepted a boutonniere. His progress was difficult, what with the enveloping reporters and photographers, officials and a fluttering brood of dowagers pleading that the flowers be spared. When a photographer slipped ankle-deep into a pond, a glaring garden clubber cried, "Shame...
Said President Eisenhower: "The recent session of the disarmament commission of the U. N. has again resulted in no progress and no clear crystallization of thinking on this subject. It has an inseparable relationship to our constant objective of peace." Stassen's new post carries Cabinet rank, probably the first such that any government has devoted exclusively to disarmament...
...Eden, Harriman, Bohlen and I remained to discuss the . . . conversation," recorded Secretary of State Edward Stettinius. "We were in agreement that the trend at the moment seemed to be more toward a three-power alliance than anything else. No progress . . . had yet been made . . . toward building a world organization based on recognition of the sovereign rights of all nations...
...Medical School has instructed its counsel to follow closely the progress of a pending Salem lawsuit whose outcome may seriously curtail the School's supply of cadavers for student dissection...