Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain could send only "a mere marshal of its diplomatic corps" [April 23] to the wedding of Prince Rainier II and Miss Kelly but was able to do considerably better for two visiting Russian commoners. I am wearied of paying taxes to support ungrateful people who feel they are too good to attend the wedding of a fine American girl...
Barkley's big chance for the presidential nomination came in Chicago in 1952, but he was 74, and there was great concern about his health. He tried to overcome that handicap. "If I felt any better," he said, "I'd send for a psychiatrist, because I'd know it was mental." When union-labor leaders turned him down in a dramatic hotel room conference, Barkley withdrew, deeply hurt. Two days later he went before the convention to make one of his best speeches and receive a hero's farewell. Harry Truman still believes, according...
...same meeting, the Council voted 9 to 7 against a door-to-door fund drive, which was to be the final effort to save the expiring German Exchange Scholarship Program, and appropriated an estimated $400 to send four delegates to the National Students Association convention in Chicago this summer...
That was enough to send many a major and minor Southern politician, including the governors of North Carolina, Georgia and Virginia, and the attorneys general of Texas, Virginia and South Carolina, into a spate of purple phrases. "I hereby defy the ruling [of] the Supreme Court," snapped C. C. Owen, president of the Alabama Public Service Commission. Yet, elsewhere in the South, e.g., in Richmond, Little Rock, Dallas, many a bus driver calmly removed signs directing Negro passengers to the rear. In the North there was a crackle of excitement: newspapers front-paged the story, and editorial writers pontificated about...
...stormy Labor Party meeting next day, Emanuel Shinwell, Defense Minister in the last Labor Cabinet, proposed that the Labor Party send an apology to B. & K. for Brown's behavior. The party indignantly refused. "It would be like apologizing for criticizing someone for knifing your brother," said one M.P. But next day Gaitskell called on the Russians at Claridge's, brought Brown's personal regrets, and expressed his own regret that the dinner had turned out badly. Khrushchev was unappeased...