Word: agendas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just about everybody in both parties-even the farmer himself-agrees that federal farm programs have become intolerably expensive (cost in fiscal 1959: $7 billion). But none of the presidential hopefuls have as yet come out with a convincing agenda for cleaning up the mess. Humphrey has unveiled a four-point "charter of hope for agriculture," and Kennedy and Symington have outdone him with rival six-point programs, but all three programs are short on specifics. Johnson says that "American ingenuity should be equal to the task" of channeling surplus food to "those who need it," but his own ingenuity...
...prosperous Canada, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker outlined an agenda for Parliament which called...
...from stockholders, obtained loans on stocks whose value was artificially maintained, even asked a prosecution witness to plead the Fifth Amendment after their trial began. Both men were held without bail pending sentencing Feb. 17. In prison Guterma could only look forward to more of the same. On his agenda: trials on charges of conspiracy in connection with two other companies...
...speech, actually written by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, outlined an agenda for the third session of Canada's 24th Parliament. With his unbeatable conservative majority (208 of the 265 Commons seats), Diefenbaker could undoubtedly ram through virtually any law he wanted, but in prosperous Canada the Prime Minister wants no drastic changes. The speech's most talk-stirring feature was what it left out: for the first time since the Korean war began, Canada's armed forces went unmentioned. Instead, Vanier read-in both English and French -of the government's hope for a "controlled disarmament...
Officially all that's on the agenda is the Chicago matter, setting up a playoff schedule and picking a date for the league draft...