Word: memorandums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the reporters, finished with their questions, had bolted for the door (see PRESS) the President went directly to his office, took a pencil and memorandum pad and went to work again on the statement he would make to the people. At noon he had a swim, half an hour's rest, lunch, and was back in his office at 2:30, only to find that it was overrun by radio and television technicians setting up for the speech that night. He took his note pad and a handful of pencils into the Cabinet Room and sat alone...
...Tariffs and Trade) were in the midst of their fourth attempt since the end of World War II to arrange, mutual tariff reductions. Despite lip service to freer trade, most of the GATT nations cling to their barriers. Undiscouraged, President Eisenhower last week forwarded to congressional leaders a memorandum declaring that it was "absolutely essential" that the U.S. join the Organization for Trade Cooperation. (The OTC, if it ever becomes a reality, will act as a permanent administrative body to enforce agreements...
Ever since he sent his famed memorandum to President Eisenhower urging a Strategy Board for Political Defense against the spread of Communism, Brigadier General David Sarnoff, board chairman of RCA, has stood out as one of the most imaginative strategists of the cold war. Last week, after receiving the National Security Industrial Association's second annual Forrestal award for "outstanding leadership in encouraging vital understanding between industry and government in the interests of national security," General Sarnoff put forth another idea-a plan to ease the shortage of science and mathematics teachers and thus reduce the odds against Soviet...
...concluded dryly,, "that this experience . . . should be handled in such a way as to re-educate the Germans. If they showed signs of becoming more reasonable in their attitude, greater freedom and a fuller life might be provided." Another paper dealing with the postwar reduction of Germany is a memorandum written by the late fellow traveler Harry Dexter White, then Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and later exposed as a tool of the Communists. It told how Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. came back to Washington in the late summer of 1944, after the second Quebec Conference. At Quebec, Morgenthau...
With Father Llanos' backing, Garcia got Primate of Spain Enrique Cardinal Pla y Deniel behind his campaign. He obtained the cardinal's signature, together with those of the Minister of Justice, the President of the Supreme Court and other top-ranking citizens, to a memorandum on prostitution listing a dozen tragic case histories, including that of a 14-year-old girl sold into white slavery by her mother for 700 pesetas ($17.50). The memorandum was sent to Franco, who replied through channels that he had "taken note" of it. Last week Franco ordered his Minister of Justice...