Word: standing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glad to see that someone has got the nerve to stand up and say our educational system has degenerated. The fault is that of both teachers and pupils...
...certain tests of AEC's efficiency could be applied, among them: "what is the state of our atomic weapons," how big is the stockpile, how much progress has been made in new weapon design? The record, he had written, "is a proud one." Now, on the witness stand, he invited the committee to ask some 30 prominent scientists and industrialists what they thought of AEC. The joint committee itself, he said, had enough information to determine whether the program had been "incredibly mismanaged." He had told them everything they had wanted to know. He had kept no secrets from...
...spent anxious months justifying the appropriations. To Republican Leader Joseph Martin and Republican Tightwad John Taber, Salesman Hoffman made an urgent, timely appeal. The cuts, warned Hoffman, would embarrass Secretary of State Dean Acheson at the Big Four conference in Paris. Hoffman's proposition: let the cuts stand, but let ECA come back for more at the end of 13½ months instead of the 15 months originally intended...
...police carrying Tommy guns. Inside, 1,000 delegates to the Ninth Congress of the Czech Communist Party met. Joseph Stalin was named "honorary chairman" of the meeting; his representative, Cominform Boss Georgy Malenkov, attended in his stead. The congress sent a telegram to "Dear Comrade Stalin": "We shall always stand faithfully by the side of the U.S.S.R...
President Truman's Point Four program had already suggested that a change was at hand. More recently, Washington's warm welcome to Brazil's President Eurico Caspar Dutra pointed up U.S. determination to stand beside its democratic friends. Last week fresh evidence that the U.S. was pulling up its hemispheric socks came with the nomination of an Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs. He was balding, 37-year-old Edward G. Miller Jr., Yaleman ('33), Wall Street lawyer and one of Dean Acheson's closest wartime lieutenants at the State Department...