Word: speak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stealing atomic minerals, interfering with the coffee market, sucking out exorbitant profits, monopolizing Brazilian industry (or, on the other hand, refusing to invest in Brazil). Career Diplomat John Moors Cabot, who built a reputation in Sweden from 1954 to 1957 as an ambassador willing to speak up anywhere any time for the U.S., was appalled at such complaints when he arrived in July to be U.S. ambassador. Last week, in a speech, he ticked off 19 major U.S. contributions to Brazil's welfare and prosperity. Among them...
...little, has an equal vote. The result was near-paralysis. As one delegate said: "It was not just a case of the jets v. the jetless. The voting was all over the lot by chaps with pistons, chaps with turboprops and chaps with both, not to speak of some who have jets on order and are now beginning to wonder how they are going to pay for them...
There were two basic conflicts at the Madison meeting. The first dealt with the issue of whether NSA should speak out on purely political questions. The Communist and left-wing delegates desperately needed the freedom to leave the realm of student problems in order to become an effective propaganda instrument. It is difficult to imagine today, but the threat of subversion posed by Communist Party and fellow-traveller members was quite real...
Still Committed to Speak...
Thondup was not contacted as a substitute for Hoffa, Samuels emphasized. The Forum asked him to speak some time ago, and "just happened to complete the plans in the past few days," he said...