Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Symbolic Role. Seldom had a Secretary of State been so spectacularly denounced by the minority party.† The Republican action served notice to the world that the U.S. Secretary of State no longer spoke for a large segment of Congress or of the nation. Its effect, as many signers agreed, was that his prestige abroad was seriously damaged at a critical moment in diplomatic affairs. This week, dragging the G.O.P.'s clattering repudiation behind him, Acheson flew off to the Brussels conference aboard Truman's personal plane, the Independence. Alben Barkley and George Marshall were on hand...
Then, as suddenly as it started, the strike was over. The night the President spoke, the National Mediation Board called in the union chiefs, told them to "bring your pillows" for an all-night session. No settlement was reached then, but the men, except for a handful of bitterenders, went back to work, in the morning. They had heard the President of the U.S. say: "No matter how serious you believe your grievances are, nothing can excuse the fact that you are adding to your country's danger. I ask you, in the name of our country, to return...
Screams of "Nadra!" The Moslems of Singapore (Malays, Pakistanis, Indonesians) had followed the case with mounting religious and racial excitement. Cried Schoolmaster Mansur's enraged kinfolk: "This is a fight between European and Asian!" In the mosques the mullahs spoke of an affront to Islam. Last week the Moslem anger erupted in the most vicious rioting in Singapore memory...
...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...
...that meeting Conant spoke for the Committee on the Present Danger...