Word: receipts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dirty Provocation. Ignoring the implications of Nina's flight, Soviet embassy officials finally got around to giving their version of her troubles. Nina had bought the hats, they said, paid for them and walked off without a receipt...
...Kliment Voroshilov, chairman of Russia's Supreme Soviet Presidium, he sent a personal letter marking the 38th Soviet national anniversary. ¶Significantly omitting a laborious presidential task of personally receiving new foreign emissaries, his staff announced routine receipt of accreditations for the new Ambassadors of Lebanon, Laos, Luxembourg, Iceland and Pakistan. ¶Through Acting Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. he conveyed a plea for restraint in the Middle East (see below). ¶With "deepest regret," he accepted the resignation of Bernard M. Shanley, White House appointment secretary and former presidential counsel, who left to "resolve some...
Beyond acknowledging receipt of the resolution, the University took no official action. Edward Reynolds, Administrative Vice-president, said last week that three times it scored...
...Counselor John Adams showed "disrespect for this subcommittee" when he chose to disregard a request from Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy that Peress' discharge be held up. Then the subcommittee listed 48 instances of snarled red tape: e.g., "the failure of Major Stambaugh, G2, First Army, upon receipt of Peress' DD Form 398 (in which Peress refused to list organizations to which he had belonged), to initiate action looking to cancellation of active-duty orders...
...because the rural population is compelled to labor on them; it is developing scientific agriculture by forcing peasant farmers to grow minimum quotas of cotton, and jailing them for failure to deliver. Each Negro city dweller is fingerprinted and must carry a plastic identity card attached to his tax receipt. Yet the Congo is one of the few places in Africa where there is practically no racial tension...