Word: rolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went over together," Wagner said, "and asked the janitor to open the closet. We took out the box, and jammed between two change tills was a roll of $150 worth of $10 and $5 bills...
...equal voting rights." Bok said. The constitution stipulates that any change in voting rights and procedures must be sanctioned by a two thirds vote of Parliament. In 1936 such a law took away the right of eight and a half million native Bantus to a place on the regular roll. At present they are permitted to vote separately for three white representatives...
...found in their midst. Later chapters tell of the financing of an American Memorial Chapel in St. Paul's Cathedral (through the small, anonymous contributions of millions of people in the British Isles, who raised approximately $280,000), and of the dedication on July 4, 1951 of the Roll of Honour, listing the names of the 28,000 American dead...
...ended the bitter, public struggle for power touched off by the death of Philip Murray early in November. Unable to reach a behind-the-scenes agreement on Murray's successor, top union leaders threw the fight on to the floor of the 14th C.I.O. convention. There, in a roll-call vote, the C.I.O. elected its third president, stocky, redheaded Walter Reuther, since 1946 president of the United Auto Workers...
...ready in Western Europe, NATO superficially seems to have hit its 1952 target. Compared with last year's NATO force of 18 active divisions, this is an improvement; compared with the 100 divisions and 7,000 aircraft that Russia has available, it remains dangerously inadequate. More important, the roll call of Allied "reserves" is woefully short. Some 20 reserve divisions exist in embryo, but few would be ready for action within the 30-day mobilization period specified by NATO. Without more reserves, says NATO Supreme Commander General Matthew B. Ridgway, Europe lacks the minimum military requirement to "take...