Word: demanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...risen to colonel when President Bustamante made him brigadier and chief of staff in 1946. The following year, when Bustamante tried governing with an all-military cabinet, Odria held his first public office as Minister of Government (Interior). He quit the cabinet when Bustamante last summer brusquely rejected his demand for immediate outlawing of the Apristas...
...worried that the decision on basing points (TIME, July 19) will make it hard for Pittsburgh to sell steel when the shortage is over. The steelmen reportedly had promised G.M. plenty of steel next year in return for the new G.M. plants, which would furnish a local market when demand falls...
...Examinations," he said, "are satisfactory in the qualities they demand. They stress memory and reproduction of course content. This does not encourage original scholars; the student forgets what he crams...
...compromise draft suggested that the Russians end the Berlin blockade immediately, and that the Berlin military governors start working out ways & means of establishing the Russian mark as Berlin's only currency, under four-power control. The Western Allies accepted this proposal and agreed to drop their demand for a Security Council vote censuring Russia...
Angry Ambassador Shaw charged over to Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza's palace to demand that the press be scolded for such rudeness. Last week, gossips in Managua (and Washington, too) were telling how, when Shaw left, Somoza had leaned back in his chair and roared with laughter. "Well," boomed Tacho, "I guess we won't have a free press in Nicaragua any more. The U.S. ambassador won't permit...