Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate decided to raise the drinking age to 19 Thursday after a parliamentary maneuver by the Senate Ways and Means Committee prevented a vote on the House bill...
State Sen. David H. Locke, a supporter of a 21-year drinking age, accused State Sen. Chester G. Atkins, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of cheating the senators of a chance to pass the more stringent bill. He said the Ways and Means maneuver made the other senators no more effective than "giggling eunuchs...
...likeliest compromises are a 20-year drinking age for all liquor consumption or a 19-year legal age in bars and a phased-in 21-year age for purchasing packaged alcohol, State Rep. Barney Frank '62 says...
...State Rep. John A. Businger says he will argue Tuesday for the House to agree with the Senate bill. "We have the power to break the deadlock," he says, adding that the House voted for a 19-year drinking age last year...
Hundreds of Boston-area students have been lobbying this week for a hike of only one year in the drinking age. Some of their organizers blame the House vote on Tuesday to raise the drinking age gradually to 21 in part on the students' lower turnout that day than on Monday. About 700 young people lobbied in the Senate Thursday...