Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judges should be chosen in such a way and assured of long-enough tenure of office that they can act independently...
...after he became chairman of the Congressional Campaign Committee in 1943, paid off by 1947 in the party's first House majority for 16 years. As Joe Martin moved up to Speaker, Halleck overrode Taft regulars to become majority leader, ramrodded through bills such as the Taft-Hartley Act and tax-cutting measures. Promised -he says-the vice presidential nomination in 1948. Halleck took Indiana votes to Tom Dewey only to see Dewey nod to California's liberal Governor Earl Warren. Halleck has never lost a chance to tell Dewey that the 1948 vote would have gone Republican...
...could make the Europeans' life in Africa a good deal simpler. It called for a conference of statisticians to make the first comprehensive survey of the needs of Africa as a whole. It made plans for a study of resources and power, for a board of experts to act as permanent economic advisers, for a training program for Africans, and for ways to attract capital, promote trade, and improve transportation on a continent-wide basis...
...amendment--pushed through by that old crusader Karl Mundt--requires that a recipient of Federal grants or loans under the act sign a loyalty oath, stating "that he does not believe in, and is not a member of and does not support any organization that believes in or teaches the overthrow of the United States Government by force or by any illegal or unconstitutional methods...
Loyalty oaths are now required of recipients of aid under both the National Defense Education Act and the National Science Foundation Act, which was passed at the height of the McCarthy scare when educators were too timid to protest such obnoxious provisions. The 86th Congress, which is scheduled to consider new educational aid legislation anyway, would do well to remove loyalty restrictions from both bills. Rather than aids to education, loyalty oaths are purposeless and dangerous hindrances to the spirit of the legislation containing them...