Word: anti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House may determine the rules of its proceedings." This means, they hold, that each House can adopt its own rules in each Congress. Their proof: the House of Representatives does so, and "the identical constitutional provision cannot reasonably be given a different interpretation as applied to the Senate." The anti-filibuster leaders argue that the Russell Amendment was an improper effort by the 81st Congress to impose its rules on all succeeding Senates...
...anti-filibuster forces win the crucial majority vote, the Senate presumably operates for a time without its old rules and under general parliamentary procedure-where debate can be ended by a simple majority. The anti-filibuster group simply submits its set of rules with Rule XXII rewritten to make cloture easier. The vote on adoption would be by simple majority...
Harsh Proposition. De Gaulle, and his conservative Finance Minister Antoine Pinay (a small-town tanner before entering politics) added two other anti-inflationary controls. To keep wages in line, they abolished the old system of pegging salaries to the cost-of-living index-though to compensate France's poor for increased food costs they decreed a 5.5% raise in the minimum wage. And by the removal of import quotas on a wide list of products. France's manufacturers would be exposed to so much foreign competition that it would be difficult for them to raise prices. Had these...
...Wehrmacht corporal, he fought on the Russian front. After the war the Soviets tossed him into an internment camp for former Nazis, although he had never been a party member. When Baer was released after three years, he headed straight for West Berlin to raise money for a clandestine anti-Communist humor magazine. Since the first issue, the content has stayed much the same: color cartoons, short skits, jokes and bogus biographies of party leaders...
Financed by anonymous anti-Communist sources, Baer and his Tarantel have shown that there is more than one way to fight Communism. They are doing pretty well with a snicker and a guffaw...