Word: accepts
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Manhattan office last week to press an old question. Would Charlie Wilson give up his job as president of General Electric* to take charge of U.S. mobilization in Washington? Wilson, eyeing his visitor through his thick lenses, reconsidered the "No" which had been his answer since Korea. He might accept, said he, if he 1) got full powers to run mobilization his way, and 2) reported directly to the President and not through a middleman. Next day Harry Truman was on the phone: "That," the President told G.E.'s Wilson, "is exactly what I had in mind...
Volkskammer. The Brussels meeting was held under a cloud of new threats from Russia. Three days before the meeting opened, the Kremlin had called in the French and British ambassadors, handed them similar notes. Said the one to France: Russia would not "accept" the rearming of West Germany planned by the Atlantic pact powers. Furthermore, France was "responsible" for undermining the six-year-old Franco-Soviet non-aggression pact. Meanwhile, the Communist German East zone Volkskammer (Parliament) unanimously decreed penalties up to death by beheading for all Germans-West as well as East zone-who supported German rearming...
...week, Post 133 of the Jewish War Veterans volunteered to supply substitutes for Christians who would otherwise have to work on Christmas Day. First requests to come in were for twelve movie-theater ushers and three restaurant waitresses. "There are no conditions attached to the offer and we shall accept no compensation," explained the post's spokesman, Harold Berman. "Our sole reward will be the knowledge that we have been able, in a small way, to express our gratitude for the splendid relationship that exists between the Jewish members of our community and our Christian neighbors...
...John's males take to the new idea? At a special meeting of the Student Polity (St. John's for student council), Moderator (president) Stewart Washburn spoke up: "We accept women. There is nothing wrong with women as such. But they are going to necessitate a great number of annoying practical adjustments." St. John's was making a beginning at such adjustments by assigning one of its four dormitories for the use of the expected newcomers...
Goneral of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower took a leave of absence as President of Columbia University yesterday to accept the command of the International Army in Europe...