Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nagging fears of Arab nationalists that the U.S. might be stoking up a colonialism of its own (see below), the President four times reiterated that U.S. aid is available only to those who voluntarily and freely request it, and announced that he will "promptly" send a special mission to the Middle East to explain the new doctrine to the Mideast leaders...
...Georgia's retired Democratic Senator Walter George as his special assistant (with the rank of ambassador) to be a presidential emissary to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and adviser on "development and implementation of bipartisan foreign policy." Salary: $20,000 a year...
Gaitskell concluded his lecture by discussing possibilities for closer European unity, saying that Britain should favor some closer ties with the Continent so long as they do not interfere with her commitments to the Commonwealth, her more liberal colonial policy, and her "special relationship with the United States...
...worker following--whose unions today give him his strongest support--dates from his student days at Oxford where he first became interested in Socialism. Gaitskell joined the strikers while most of his classmates reacted to the great Strike of 1926 by volunteering to serve as transport workers and special constables. Later, during the Depression, he gave adult education courses to Nottinghampshire miners for the Worker's Education Association...
Finally the dire need of the Hungarian refugees became a political football when the Chairman of the Combined Charities pistol-whipped the Council into letting World Universities Service handle the funds for the special relief drive. "If WUS doesn't get the money, I won't run the drive," he said, and added that "you can't tell me how to spend my money." Regardless of the merits of WUS, Combined Charities is and should remain an advisory and administrative arm of the Council...