Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Interviewing for place on the technical staff will begin next week, after casting for the acting parts has been completed. The time and place for that session will be announced sometime before the end of the week...
Then the U.S. Secretary of State came to the real business at hand. He proposed a "Little Assembly," a standing committee of delegates from each of the 55 United Nations to sit in continuous session, for the next year at least, on the issues that were blocking the road to peace. The Little Assembly would not "impinge upon" the action of the big powers on the Security Council; it might facilitate action. In effect, Marshall had rallied the little powers, which have hitherto paced the corridors as restless exiles from the U.N.'s big-power politics, squarely behind...
...Chinese feel that the Wedemeyer mission was only a rubber stamp for a long-held Marshall decision to let China stew in her own juice. Just after Wedemeyer left for home, several Kuomintang elders had a session with the Generalissimo. Tears flowed. Breasts were beaten. Without additional U.S. help and with Russian intervention likely to increase, where could China turn? One leader suggested the inevitable: rapprochement with Russia, and proposed sending Elder Statesman Chen Li-fu to Moscow...
...ultimate agreement--reached in a plenary session tense with the crossfire of eloquent oratory called for a Constitutional clause affirming every man's right to equal educational opportunity, and a section of the by-laws looking forward to "the eventual elimination of segregated educational systems anywhere in the United States" with due regard for "the legal limitations involved." The crucial provision was complete regional autonomy. Despite this, conservative Southern leader Lloyd Teakle of Louisiana State University could privately remark: "I guess we can get this thing through back home. I'll just show them the Constitution and hope...
After regaling prospective enrollees with impersonations of his own, Packard announced that a regular "try-out" session will be held to determine those best qualified for the course...