Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taftmen's signals jammed. When Coleman got back to the floor, Ohio's Senator John Bricker had moved to adopt the 1948 rules, and the Eisenhower forces had offered a substitute motion-the now-celebrated Langlie amendment (providing that delegations contested by more than 33⅓% of the national committee might not vote on other contests). Who told Bricker to make his motion? Chairman Gabrielson, who at that point was apparently thinking about routine, not about Taft tactics. Things were happening so fast that Coleman had to pick the nearest Taftman available to raise the point of order...
Breakoff & Backfire. This was the substance and order of the agenda that emerged: 1) first adopt the agenda; 2) locate the cease-fire line; 3) provide safeguards for the truce; 4) arrange exchange of prisoners; 5) and finally, agree on recommendations (not binding) to the belligerent governments. In putting the cease-fire line at the top of the substantive items, the wily Reds had laid a trap which the U.N. woke up to, later...
...Assembly went a Rhee ultimatum: adopt his proposals for presidential elections by the people (instead of by the Assembly as the constitution provides) or face dissolution. Said Rhee: "I may have to be obedient to the people . . . And the question will be very easily settled." Rhee's police still hold eleven opposition Assemblymen incommunicado...
...that a congressional policy be executed in a manner prescribed by Congress. It directs that a presidential policy be executed in a manner prescribed by the President. The preamble of the order itself, like that of many statutes, sets out reasons why the President believes certain policies should be adopted, proclaims these policies as rules of conduct to be followed, and again, like a statute, authorizes a Government official to promulgate additional rules . . . to carry that policy into execution. The power of Congress to adopt such public policies as those proclaimed by the order is beyond question . . . The Constitution...
...isolationist"), Taft pointed out that NATO guards only 500 miles of the Soviet dominion's 20,000 miles of frontier with the free world. "In fact, our leaders have become the new isolationists. They would abandon most of Europe and most of Asia to Russia, and adopt a purely defensive policy which has no hope of bringing freedom to millions behind the Iron Curtain...