Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vermont's venerable George Aiken has publicly turned on Benson and his works. More worried about such a simple political issue as rising unemployment than anything else, many an Atlantic Seaboard legislator will fight Ike's program for a five-year renewal of the reciprocal trade agreement act. (G.O.P. leaders have told him he will be lucky to get three years.) Such reclamation-conscious Senators as Minnesota's Thye and California's Knowland are balking at Ike's proposal for a moratorium on reclamation projects to help keep the budget in balance...
...University funds proper. Use of the funds for present needs rather than for permanent endowment would leave the department in the same uncertain predicament in the future that it faced before the recent gifts. The final decision on allocation of the new funds rests with the Corporation, which will act on a budget proposed jointly by Dean Bundy and the Faculty Committee on Athletics
Also pressured to act last week was New Jersey s Republican Senator Clifford Case whose commuter constituents are taxed not only by New York but by Delaware and Philadelphia as well. Case introduced a Senate resolution calling for a constitutional amendment to prevent any state or local government from taxing nonresidents. His proposal also plugged by Rhode Island's Governor Dennis J. Roberts, whose constituents are taxed by Massachusetts, has very little chance. Even if it should get by the Senate Judiciary Committee, an amendment would need ratification by 36 states, and about a dozen are already taxing nonresidents...
...achievements of Soviet technology. Says the U.S. Air Transport Association's President Stuart Tipton: "Aeroflot is visibly preparing to challenge the supremacy of Western carriers. An effective Russian civil airline will facilitate Russia's economic penetration elsewhere, serve as a vehicle for political influence and act as an effective propaganda weapon...
Under these circumstances his refusal to release the Gaither Report to the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee can only be construed as an act of political cowardice and personal weakness. The Gaither Report contains material for a severe indictment of the Administration's complacency. It would be unfortunate if the President would risk national security because he is unwilling to shatter the image of Dwight D. Eisenhower as the beloved and unerring military hero. The withholding of the Gaither Report deprives the nation of its right to know and the Congress of the facts upon which to base action. The Report also...