Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that it left the government's majority in doubt. Sarit & Co. insisted they would not cooperate with Pibul unless Phao resigned as police chief. At week's end, General Phao did just that, but remained on as Minister of Interior. This pleased everyone; it also served to strengthen a growing conviction that Premier Pibul, though his troubles with Marshal Sarit were far from over, was still pretty firmly in control, as he has been for 15 of the last 19 years. Any crisis in the Cabinet, said the Premier blandly, exists only in the minds of "outsiders...
Tired Dr. Fry was pleased last week with the ten-day assembly's action in urging a ban on nuclear-weapon tests, voting to study the effects of mixed marriages with Roman Catholics and to strengthen Lutheran efforts in Latin America. But he was most pleased of all at the theses. "At Lund, Sweden, in 1947, Lutherans learned to march together," he said. "At Hannover, Germany, in 1952, they learned to worship together. At Minneapolis in 1957, they learned to think together...
Most businessmen assume that the rapidly rising U.S. population, expected to top 220 million by 1975, will progressively strengthen the nation's prosperity by creating more workers, new consumers, bigger markets, faster sales, greater industrial expansion. Last week Pittsburgh's influential Mellon National Bank & Trust Co. entered a mild dissent, warned that the growing population will produce as many problems as props for the economy. Said Senior Vice President James Neville Land, 62, in the bank's weekly newsletter: "Our rising population is creating pressures on natural resources which tend to retard further increases in material wellbeing...
...striking most of Part III from the bill; Johnson saw that the amendment got onto the Senate floor for action. Moreover, he rounded up so many votes to carry it that at the last moment he was able to allow some Northern Democrats to vote against the bill to strengthen their civil rights reputations back home. The amendment carried 52 to 38, and Part III was all but gone...
...London for a Commonwealth Conference soon after his election, Diefenbaker invited his fellow Prime Ministers to send their finance ministers to Ottawa this fall to talk up Commonwealth trade. And back in Ottawa, he called on Canadians to shift 15% of their U.S. purchase orders to British suppliers, thus strengthen Britain's ability to buy Canadian wheat...