Word: undertook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...light flared even brighter last week when in Washington a federal judge undertook to decide whether Girard should be tried by a U.S. or a Japanese court for the fatal shooting of a Japanese woman scrounging metal on an Army firing range (TIME. June 17). He was not attempting to pass on Girard's guilt or innocence, said District Judge Joseph C. McGarraghy. Nor was he assessing the relative merits of U.S. and Japanese justice. But since the Army admits that Girard was on duty when he fired the shot, the U.S. was in error when it waived...
...British move, Ike found a U.S. precedent. "You will recall in 1953 the first thing that this new Administration undertook was a complete survey of our military establishment and our military needs, and it acquired . . . the term 'new look.' Well, it was merely an effort to bring military establishments more in line with the military facts of today. Now . . . Britain is trying to do that. At the same time they are trying to put out the ultimate help they can in the alliances of which they are a part, and still keep themselves a viable economy . . . These...
...more. The House, which knows Patman as an easy-money man who blames most of the world's troubles on big bankers, handily voted down an enabling resolution. Another candidate, Senate Banking and Currency Chairman J. William Fulbright, was equally unpromising. Two years ago Fulbright and his committee undertook an investigation of the stock market, accomplished little more than a sharp drop in market prices...
...deal by which three Arab nations -Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia-undertook to replace Jordan's $36 million-a-year British subsidy was proving largely a desert mirage. Syria's first remittance turned out to be not a check but a cheeky receipt-for "services" provided Jordan by Syrian army units stationed in Jordan since last fall's Suez invasion. Desperately convinced that Jordan's only way to survive as a kingdom was to qualify for U.S. Eisenhower plan aid, the young King publicly denounced Communist influence in the country and set out to purge...
...yesterday thrust a monumental task on the shoulders of three local academicians during a telecast called "Destiny Makers." Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History, Donald Bigelow, professor of history at Brandeis, and John H. Laverly, professor of philosophy at B.U., undertook to determine the names of the five most influential Americans of the first half of the 20th century...