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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's warning came just before the London talks recessed until next week and Presidential Disarmament Adviser Harold Stassen flew home to report fresh progress toward "partial disarmament" providing for a cutback in arms, manpower and defense costs. Three days before Stassen's arrival, Secretary of State Dulles had also moved in to mod erate any undue optimism about the talks that Happy Harold Stassen might generate. The Soviet proposals, Dulles granted at his news conference, marked "a certain measure of progress." But the Administration would make no disarmament moves-which could involve the "very existence...
...Beck made his third appearance before the Senate committee investigating labor racketeering. so much of his dirty laundry had been washed in public that the Teamsters were ready to wring him out of office. Because there is no clear-cut constitutional procedure for impeaching him now, the reformers looked toward September when the International Teamsters open a convention and hold an election in Miami Beach, Fla. First to volunteer to take a crack at Beck was an old pal, Fourth Vice President John T. ("Sandy") O'Brien of Chicago, who announced for the presidency. Knowing Teamsters doubted that...
...symphony were happy to negotiate with Beck for Teamsters' sponsorship of a radio program featuring Conductor Milton Katims. In return for a $5,000 donation (Teamster money) to Seattle's United Good Neighbors charity drive, Beck's civic leadership was cited as going "a long way toward making our town a good place in which to live and do business...
...With even less success, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd (whose early resignation was now freely predicted by the British press) tried to put a hopeful face on it by saying that "certain practical lessons have been learned about the consequences of the canal being out of operation." Jabbing his finger toward Macmillan, Labor's honey-voiced Aneurin Bevan demolished Lloyd with a single blow. "There is no reason to attack the monkey," sneered Bevan, "when the organ-grinder is present...
Walking cautiously along the forest trail blazed by the British in Ghana and Nigeria, France last week permitted its African citizens in the dank and sweaty Cameroons (pop. 3,300,000) to take a big step toward self-government. Under a law passed by the French Assembly (under which France still maintains firm control over the West African colony's foreign affairs, defense and money matters), the Cameroons became something called a "State Under Trusteeship." Last week ambitious and outspoken Andre-Marie Mbida,.an ardently anti-Communist Cameroonian tribesman who once studied for the Roman Catholic priesthood, took over...