Word: states
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gotten another oldtime New Dealer-Federal Trade Commissioner John Carson-past a balky committee, by turning on some purely political heat. He decided to try again with Olds, sent for National Democratic Chairman Bill Boyle. On Harry Truman's orders, Boyle dispatched telegrams to every Democratic national and state committeeman, governor and mayor in the U.S.. told them Olds's defeat would be "a victory for the power lobbyists and the Republican Party," and instructed them to whip their Senators into line...
Last week the State Department let it be known that the gesture was not quite so generous as it had seemed. After turning down her request for aid to China, the Government-while waiting for China's dust to settle-found time to send her a $9,002 bill for airplane transportation. She paid promptly. When she travels to Formosa this month, it will be by commercial airliner...
...houses. His score: 800 jobs, no arrests. But he had been caught four times for breaking into stores, had spent 15 years in prison. Life behind walls was intolerable to him and he grew morose and hopeless in "stir." Nevertheless during his last stretch, 34 months at the Iowa State Penitentiary, he forced himself to plan a better life for the future...
Another moral matter (situated on a different plane) occupied the Legal Committee last week. Yugoslavia placed before it a Draft Declaration on the Rights, and Duties of States. A clear indictment of Russia's actions against Yugoslavia., the declaration said: "Every people has the right to self-determination . . . without any economic, political or military pressures or interferences on the part of other states . . . Every state has the duty ... to curb all activities calculated to spread hatred toward other peoples, to affront their honor or offend the dignity of and slander, other states...
...stands on his head. This is not the exotic mysticism of the fabulous East but a practical way to drive off fatigue and make up for lack of sleep. Last week, as Nehru left New Delhi for Washington on one of the century's most important visits of state, his secretary discussed head-standing with U.S. newsmen: "Perhaps the Prime Minister will demonstrate this for your President Truman...