Word: memorandums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early March memorandum to Moscow, the U.S. questioned whether Russia wanted a summit meeting "to take meaningful decisions" or "merely to stage a spectacle." Recalling that wording, a newsman asked Dulles if he thought that acceptance of Russia's terms would make a summit meeting a "spectacle." Replied Dulles: "It would mean that on the way to the summit we would have lost our shirt. Perhaps that would result in a 'spectacle...
...memorandum to the President, Secretary Marion Folsom suggested that a $79 million grant be given the National Science Foundation, which now carries on many of the kinds of programs HEW hopes to foster. Thus, HEW itself would be left with only $145 million the first year to give U.S. education the boost it so badly needs...
...officers, who asked not to be identified, said a memorandum had been sent to Strauss demanding a full explanation of the affair...
...lived, the Leningrad Case was a "quiet purge": nothing was said of it in print. It was first used as a weapon after Stalin's death, in the overthrow and execution of Secret Police Boss Lavrenty Beria. Even then, mention of the case was confined to a secret memorandum foreshadowing the later declaration in Khrushchev's famed 20th Party Congress speech on Feb. 24, 1956 that it was "precisely Beria" who "fabricated" the charges against the Zhdanovites. Within a year after Beria's death, Malenkov's power had so declined that Khrushchev or his henchmen were...
...Ethical Practices Committee in its memorandum of charges, alleged that the embattled Teamsters organization has so far failed to recognize anything wrong in its ranks, to conduct any investigation, or to suspend any union officials whose activities have been questioned...