Word: armes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Background. Until 1917, the Senate had no real cloture rule. In March 1917 a band of eleven Senators led by Progressives Robert La Follette of Wisconsin and George Norris of Nebraska filibustered to death President Wilson's request for permission to arm U.S. merchantmen against German submarines.* When Wilson called the Senate into extraordinary session, an outraged majority, led by Montana's Democratic Senator Thomas J. Walsh, imposed a rule under which debate could be ended by two-thirds of the Senators voting. But the new rule had a fatal flaw: it provided a method for cloture...
...Snook Kelley indicated that two of his starters and a second line wing were ailing, but would probably play. High scoring center Bill Daley was weak after suffering an infected tooth, and Captain Joe Jangro said he would start at his right defense position in spite of a bruised arm. The other starters are goalie Jim Logue, who turned away 31 of 32 shots against Harvard in the opener, sophomore defenseman Tom Martin, and forwards Ron Walsh and Owen Hughes...
Other suggested changes--which may or may not be adopted by the National Rules Committee when it meets in Los Angeles next week--include returning the goal posts to the goal line to promote field goal kicking, more liberal substitution, and a rewriting of the present one-arm blocking rule...
There was no sign that the Soviet Union's blasting of a satellite toward orbit around the sun would result in any immediate monetary shot in the arm for the American space program. Rather, indications developed that the heavily Democratic Congress convening Wednesday may write its own ticket in the months ahead on funds for defense and allied operations. Eisenhower's figure is up only 100 millions over the current budget...
...Methodist Church's Council of Bishops, slammed the door shut, unwarily slammed the edge of his overcoat with it. When the cab pulled away, Oxnam was felled, his head striking the curb. Momentarily knocked unconscious, the bishop was taken to the hospital with a fractured left arm and facial cuts...