Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President, engulfing him in seas of teeming, shouting, cheering bodies. They sang and they danced, they performed ancient and breathless feats of prowess in his honor, and they overwhelmed him with music and food and flowers. Their leaders uttered thousands of words of praise for him and his nation, told him their problems, led him to exotic rituals, to farms and fairs and shrines, swept him into ceremonials of such splendor as no Westerner before had ever experienced. It was a wonder that a man of 69, with his medical history, could withstand the exhausting torrents of pomp and tumult...
...Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams ("in the forefront of enlightened social legislation"). Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey was "one of the forward-looking thinkers in our ranks"; Adlai Stevenson, chairman of the evening, was "an important and gifted voice in the affairs of the party and the nation"; Massachusetts' Senator Jack Kennedy was "a liberal and, in the judgment of many, a fighting liberal." But Harry Truman's own favorite, Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, was unequivocally presented as "a confirmed and dedicated liberal...
...Dillon, on a flying trip to Europe, preached the need to end European discrimination against the dollar and for prosperous Europe to do its bit elsewhere. The U.S., having donated or lent $75.8 billion to foreign countries since 1945, could not bear the burden alone, nor could any single nation. ¶ Britain's Sir Oliver Franks, onetime ambassador to Washington, and now chairman of Lloyds Bank, coined a vivid, if not quite precise, name for the new need. Instead of a familiar East-West crisis, he talked of a North-South axis, proposed that the world's industrial...
...Algerian rebels had been holding off any negotiations with France hoping to make a show of world backing in the U.N. Last year they had come within one vote of a two-thirds majority in the General Assembly, and at least one nation-Castro's Cuba-had indicated it would change its vote in Algeria's favor this year...
...which was set up under the Taft-Hartley Act, recommend the terms of a settlement; he promised to settle "within the framework of the board's recommendations." The President turned down the suggestion in favor of another try at collective bargaining. In high moral tones that stressed the nation's welfare, both sides pledged once more to forge ahead for a settlement-then went right back to bickering...