Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Byrnes's forceful radio report to the U.S. people this week said that if that if the Four did not agree after their recess to summon the 21-nation peace conference by "July 1 or July 15," the U.S. would submit the whole question of the peace treaties to the 51 nations of the U.N. General Assembly. "We must take the offensive for peace," he added. "There is no iron curtain that the aggregate sentiments of mankind cannot penetrate." In this speech, and in his attitude at Paris, Byrnes ably and clearly demonstrated the Western Powers' determination...
...down and die. The casual observers do not realize that famine would have already struck great groups and classes were it not for past overseas supplies and that it is in evitable, unless we land for the next months every ton of overseas food that we can summon. And nothing is more preposterous than the opinions of travelers on the Continent who live on black-market food at prices out of reach of 99% of the people." Hoover called the present crisis "the most critical food period in all history...
...House offices and cloakroom last week, members bandied a forgotten name. This scissorbill from Missouri, they said, was beginning to sound like Samuel Jackson Randall. Handsome Sam Randall was chairman of the House Appropriations Committee in the Grant Administration-and he was something to summon up. His committee grabbed so much power that it controlled legislation just by loosening and tightening the Government purse strings...
...presented a warning and a goal: "We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants today is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow. To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our own lips as well. We must summon such detachment and intellectual integrity to our task that this trial will commend itself to posterity as fulfilling humanity's aspiration to do justice...
...Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs? We know Mr. Laski as chairman of the Labor Party Executive [Committee] which has the right to describe their own party as they wish to do. But this is a very important body. I have been told that it has the power to summon Ministers before it. Evidently Mr. Laski has great power and evidently he is keen to assert it. ... Broadly speaking, it is better that declarations about foreign policy should be made by Ministers of the Crown responsible to the House of Commons...