Word: washington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WASHINGTON, Dec. 1--Neil H. McElroy, the first space age secretary of defense, resigned today and Philadelphia banker Thomas Sovereign Gates, Jr. was promoted to the top Pentagon post, McElroy is leaving after 26 months at the helm of the Defense Department...
...WASHINGTON, Dec. 1--The Antarctic Pact--a pledge to keep the great frozen continent at peace--was signed today by 12 nations, including the United States and the Soviet Union. The treaty bans war bases, nuclear explosions and missile sites forever from a vast south polar region covering five million square miles...
...WASHINGTON, Nov. 30--Sons, wives, daughters, brothers, sisters and other relatives of senators showed up on Senate payroll records made public today...
...WASHINGTON, Nov. 29--President Eisenhower has decided to ask Congress for a new foreign aid appropriation of slightly more than four billion dollars, including a substantial increase in funds for military assistance...
Peiping was replying to Washington's charge that a U.S. Marine of the Bombay consulate general staff was abducted and beaten in the Chinese consulate Friday after he showed up there with the Chinese...