Word: requested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, as the House considered the President's request for $3.9 billion for foreign aid in fiscal 1960, the rivals took to the floor, soon moved from statistics and specifics to their basic philosophies. Said Otto Passman, dazzlingly arrayed in a crisp white linen suit: "First, we cannot spend ourselves rich. Second, we cannot make ourselves secure by giving ourselves away. Third, we cannot buy friends. We were once told that foreign aid would stop Communism. Now we are told it is our duty to buy our way of life for countries all over the world...
...makes one further appearance, in defiance of tradition. When Seyton informs Macbeth of her suicide, Quintero, acquiescing to Robards' request, lets Macbeth exit and re-enter with his dead wife in his arms before delivering his "She should have died hereafter" soliloquy...
...company already organized by a bona fide union, or within nine months after an NLRB election, but does nothing about other forms of "blackmail picketings." The Administration wants to prohibit all picketing designed to blackmail an employer into bargaining with a union when his employees do not request an election...
...thought the display was "too frivolous," showing Americans doing a lot of playing-dancing, dining out, picnicking, traveling-but very little working. Others objected to a scene showing teenagers romping to raucous rock 'n' roll. But the fashion industry committee that put the show together (at the request of the U.S. exhibition's General Manager Harold C. McClellan) felt that the "not representative" charge was aimed primarily at scenes showing whites and Negroes mingling at social events, notably a civil wedding with a white couple serving as the attendants of a Negro bride and groom. Having shown...
Lebanon. Last year's Iraq revolt threatened to ignite Lebanon too. But the day after, at Lebanon's request, 3,500 U.S. marines landed. When the U.S. troops, more than 14,000 at one point, left three months later, not a single Lebanese had been killed or injured by the Americans. Tank treads in the sand have long since been obliterated; a four-man Cabinet under President Fuad Chehab, the relaxed army boss, still governs Lebanon by legislative decree; business is good once more. Net effect: the Middle East learned that the U.S. is ready to intervene...