* 1954 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his " domino theory " speech during a news conference.

In 1954 Eisenhower first articulated the domino theory in his description of the threat presented by the spread of communism.

As the 1954 congressional elections approached, and it became evident that the Republicans were in danger of losing their thin majority in both houses, Eisenhower was among those blaming the Old Guard for the losses, and took up the charge to stop suspected efforts by the right wing to take control of the GOP.

In early 1954 the Old Guard put forward a constitutional amendment, called the Bricker Amendment, which would curtail international agreements by the Chief Executive, such as the Yalta Agreements ; Eisenhower opposed the measure.

" The order of the dedications has changed with the relative power of the United States and Britain, and with relative sales ; the 1954 version of the 14th edition is " Dedicated by Permission to the Heads of the Two English-Speaking Peoples, Dwight David Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, and Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth the Second.

* 1954 – President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.

He received a White House Special Commendation from President Eisenhower in 1954 for his work.

* 1954 – U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial ( Iwo Jima memorial ) in Arlington National Cemetery.

* 1954 – Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam

However, the Truman and Eisenhower administrations considered it a national security threat for Canada to alone control the deep waterway, and used various means-such as delaying and stalling the Federal Power Commission license for the power aspect-until Congress in early 1954 approved an American seaway role via the Wiley-Dondero act.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower with AEC chair Lewis Strauss in 1954.

Dr. George MacPherson Docherty ( left ) and President Eisenhower ( second from left ) on the morning of February 7, 1954, at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church

On February 7, 1954, with President Eisenhower sitting in Lincoln's pew, the church's pastor, George MacPherson Docherty, delivered a sermon based on the Gettysburg Address titled " A New Birth of Freedom.

Eisenhower acted on his suggestion the next day and on February 8, 1954, Rep. Charles Oakman ( R-Mich .), introduced a bill to that effect.

Congress passed the necessary legislation and Eisenhower signed the bill into law on Flag Day, June 14, 1954.

In his 1954 State of the Union address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower became the first president to publicly state his support for prohibiting age-based denials of suffrage for those 18 and older.

Following the recommendation of the Board, Congress passed legislation in 1954 to begin the construction of the Air Force Academy, and President Eisenhower signed it into law on 1 April of that year.

Referring to communism in Indochina, U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower put the theory into words during an April 7, 1954 news conference:

President Eisenhower was the first to refer to countries in danger of Communist takeover as dominoes, in response to a journalist's question about Indochina in an April 7, 1954 news conference, though he did not use the term " domino theory ".

In 1954, in response to the perceived threat of secular Communism, President Eisenhower encouraged Congress to add the words " under God ," creating the 31-word pledge that is recited today.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law on October 8, 1954.

Eisenhower Elementary School Constructed in 1954 and added on to in 1966 and 1990, Eisenhower Elementary serves students in USD 211 in grades ECD through sixth grade.

President Dwight Eisenhower, also from Kansas, signed the bill into law on May 26, 1954.

After a short period of Democratic Party administration, Yoshida returned in late 1948 and continued to serve as prime minister until 1954.

Transfer of civil administration of North Vietnam to the Việt Minh was given on October 11, 1954.

Kim first entered politics in 1954 during the administration of Korea's first president, Syngman Rhee.

On December 2, 1954, Bush was part of the large ( 67 – 22 ) majority to censure Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy, after McCarthy had taken on the U. S. Army and the Eisenhower administration.

The original three-story factory and four-story administration building had been headquarters to Nash-Kelvinator from 1937 – 1954 as well as a factory for refrigerators, electric ranges, and commercial refrigeration — as well as airplane propellers for the U. S. military effort during World War II.

Truman said it was his belief that by 1954 he would be able to speak more fully on subjects pertaining to the role his administration played in world affairs.

A promising athlete, Landrieu won a baseball scholarship at Loyola University New Orleans, where he received a bachelor of arts in business administration in 1952 and a law degree in 1954.

Drapeau was elected mayor of Montreal in 1954 at the age of 37, as the candidate of the Civic Action League, on a platform of cleaning up the administration.

The most prominent of those doctrines was the policy of " massive retaliation ", which Dulles announced early in 1954, eschewing the costly, conventional ground forces characteristic of the Truman administration in favor of wielding the vast superiority of the U. S. nuclear arsenal and covert intelligence.

Michael D. " Mike " McCurry ( born October 27, 1954 ) is best known as the former press secretary for Bill Clinton's administration.

Jinzhou then came back under the administration of Liaoning Province in 1954, when Liaoxi and Liaodong provinces merged.

During the following year, he was a professor of public administration at Cornell, then from 1954 – 64, taught government at Columbia University, where he received a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award in 1961.

Ronald " Ron " Kirk ( born June 27, 1954 ) is the 16th United States Trade Representative, serving in the Obama administration.

The decision to arm France with nuclear weapons was made in 1954 by the administration of Pierre Mendès-France under the Fourth Republic.

Gradison, a Republican, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and received a bachelor of arts degree from Yale University in 1949, a master's degree in business administration from Harvard University's Graduate School of Business Administration in 1951, and a doctor of commercial science degree from Harvard in 1954.

After retiring as Under Secretary of State in 1954, Smith continued to serve the Eisenhower administration in various posts.

After retiring as Under Secretary of State in 1954, Smith continued to serve the Eisenhower administration in various posts.

Despite some scandals in his administration, he was easily elected to a second non-consecutive term in 1954.

Cass Robert Sunstein ( born September 21, 1954 ) is an American legal scholar, particularly in the fields of constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and law and behavioral economics, who currently is the Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration.

In October 1954 the territory was ceded to Italy and administration turned over to the Italian Army.

Three years later in 1954 No. 5 Personnel Despatch Unit arrived, charged with the administration and processing of personnel selected for overseas service.

Privately run since 1954, the Air Force under the Obama administration chose to insource the contracted operations of the plant.

In 1954 the administration of this automobile factory opened a secret design office with the name “ Southern ” ( konstruktorskoe biuro Yuzhnoe – in Russian ) to construct military missiles and rocket engines.

The Wisconsin Central entered receivership in 1932, declared bankruptcy in 1944, and finally re-emerged from administration in 1954 as the Wisconsin Central Railroad.