Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elected to the New Jersey Republican State Committee. In 1951 he helped organize the New Jersey Republicans for Eisenhower in the bitter preconvention campaign. After election President Eisenhower named Dillon U.S. Ambassador to France. Dillon was widely traveled in France, spoke French fluently (although he continued, as ambassador, to take an hour's instruction daily...
...McCloy, 63, chairman of the board of the Chase Manhattan Bank. Philadelphia-born, Amherst-and Harvard-educated. Lawyer McCloy left a thriving New York practice in 1941 to become Assistant Secretary of War, served until war's end, later became president of the World Bank, resigned to take over from General Lucius Clay as U.S. High Commissioner for Germany in 1949. In Germany he won the esteem of SHAPE'S Commander Dwight Eisenhower, has remained one of Ike's close friends...
...President, invited to address the meeting, entered Washington's National Guard Armory almost unheralded to face the delegates with his answer. Government, said he, has a proper duty to take steps to help special groups that have suffered economically, and such help is given in housing, urban renewal, farm support programs, rural electrification and other ways. But "the effort here is not to give one group of citizens special privilege or undeserved advantage. Rather it is to see that equality of opportunity is not withheld from the citizen...
...supplied from France by a senior air force officer. Other generals in France had promised to support Massu's movement with an additional 4,000 paratroopers, 80 tanks and two battalions of colonial infantry. In all probability the attack would have met with no organized resistance. Unwilling to take responsibility for plunging France into civil war, General Ely resigned as Chief of Staff rather than issue an order calling upon units in France to oppose their brother soldiers from Algeria...
Princeton is ranked high in the nation defensively as well, and it will take a sharpshooting varsity to stand a chance. Coach Floyd Wilson said yesterday that to down the visitors the Crimson will have to have a good night from the floor while stopping the Princeton offense before the Tigers get off many good shots...