Word: finalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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President Eisenhower made the final decision. It was, as Columnist James Reston wrote, "the most serious decision he has had to make since he ordered the Allied troops to cross the English Channel for the invasion of Europe...
Most guesstimates gave the Senate two weeks for meandering dialogue, during which time Dick Russell and his Southerners would make their final pleas and then sit down. With a solid bill to work on, Lyndon Johnson figures that he can count on enough votes to close off debate should the South begin a new, last-ditch filibuster. If he is right-and he usually is-the fight is over; remarkably, in an election year, the U.S. Congress will have turned out a really meaningful civil rights bill...
...year "contingency fund" provided to cover the mayor's out-of-pocket expenses, thereby shamed the four other members of the city commission into giving up their own $500-apiece contingency funds.¶Sliced a fast $258,500 out of the previous administration's final bud'get, vowed to whittle away $250,000 more. ¶Forced the resignation of the city purchasing agent because he bought $10,000 worth of water pipe without asking for bids. (Lee drew brisk criticism by naming his own campaign manager as the new purchasing agent...
...have a wise saying," said he: " 'Better to have 100 friends than 100 rubles.' We would like France's friends to become our friends." But in his prepared answers to questions put by correspondents, there was a good deal more bite. "We want a final period put to the Second World War by a peace treaty. If our efforts remain in vain, we will be led to conclude a unilateral treaty of peace with the Democratic German Republic." And what of Western rights in Berlin and the null allied garrison? Khrushchev acted as though the garrison...
...Himmler handpicked him to head up Auschwitz and a year later told him the camp's exact purpose: The Fuehrer had decided on "the final solution of the Jewish question." Translation: the Jews were to be massacred. Hoess did not quibble or quake. He even contributed a euphemism of his own: "The removal of racial-biological foreign bodies...