Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, the School is one of the least cloistered of Cornell's divisions. Its students may not actually dig in the coalmines they visit and they do not declare dividends for the companies they study. But they seem to learn almost everything else about that complicated organism, the American economy...
...many things to say which his audience wanted to hear. They were delighted, for instance, with a suggestion that Chiang Kai-shek and his immediate adherents should be retired to some safe place to live their lives out in peace ... They applauded him when he said the visit had strengthened his view the People's government of China should be admitted to the United Nations...
...Henry Holland's airplane landed in Buenos Aires. As part of the process of answering, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State next morning talked privately with Juan Peron. Whatever the Secretary said (in fluent, Mexican-accented Spanish) and heard, the chat set a sunny tone for his visit...
...contrast, the tone of Holland's visit to Chile was somber and serious. President Carlos Ibáñez, bucking an anti-Administration majority in Congress, has been helpless to curb Chile's feverish inflation. Of a comprehensive economic program he offered. Congress passed only a sales tax. Unionists, 520,000 strong (in a country of 6,100,000), reacted to that with strikes. Starting in August, copper miners closed down the big mining industry, and government revenues from copper exports vanished. Ibáñez forced the miners back to work by threatening to draft them into...
...would admit Negro students to the tenth grade. As a result, 1,500 citizens jammed into the American Legion hall to protest. A few, nights later, 1,000 more presented the school board with a petition demanding that the Negroes be dropped. A group even paid a midnight visit to Board President W. Dean Kimmel, warned him that some of their numbers had "gotten out of hand and there might be violence...