Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House subcommittee, he referred to a 1956 White House staff meeting that he described as a get-together aimed at tightening general rules of personal conduct. It was far more than that. The meeting took place in the summer of 1956-the presidential election year-and Adams warned his senior staffers that some evidently improper requests had come to the White House from congressional sources. "We are all fair game," he announced. Adams feared that the Democrats might try to trap the White House by planting a scandal during the campaign. The watchword was handed out: prudence...
Even in Red China, where the tiny measure of freedom proffered was hastily snatched back, Mao's government has found itself obliged, according to British intelligence, to "displace" more heretical senior officials in the past six months than in the preceding 8½ years of Communist rule...
Even the powerful Asantehene, King of the Ashanti, whose golden stool is believed to have come down from heaven, was not too big for the Prime Minister. Over the months, Nkrumah has created six new senior chiefs in Ashanti to challenge the Asantehene's rule, is now ready with a bill to set up, in accordance with the constitution, Houses of Chiefs to act as advisers to the government. When the bill becomes law, the Asantehene will lose his absolute power to make and break his own vassal chiefs. He will be merely the titular head of an advisory...
...Reith Lectures, delivered last fall in London over the BBC. Here I said: "... I would not wish to say that there is never a time for summit meetings. There is a time for almost everything in the strange world of diplomacy. But surely, if the usefulness of these senior figures is to be protected and the raising of false hopes avoided, such meetings should occur, if at all, at the end of the negotiating process, and for the purpose of formalizing agreements already arrived at, rather than at the beginning and as a means of starting the wearisome process...
Last week 20 college-bound Negroes from Houston (where a junior-senior high school was named for Worthing this year) got $4,000 scholarships in colleges of their choice. Total given so far by Worthing's trust, which will continue indefinitely: 130 scholarships worth...