Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subject to public inspection; states have a right to determine voting qualifications, the report said, but the right "is not unlimited."¶ An amendment to the Civil Rights Act forbidding any election official to discriminate by failure to carry out a public duty, e.g., resigning from office to avoid accepting registrations, and a recommendation that would empower the commission to apply directly to federal courts for aid in enforcing subpoenas, rather than going through the Attorney General. ¶ Appointment of temporary federal registrars, empowered, on petition, to register voters for federal elections when voting rights have been denied by local...
...risk of exposing the southern provinces of Laos to attacks from Communist guerrillas operating out of northern Thailand, a fresh battalion of loyal troops was airlifted to threatened Samneua. And late in the week Laotian Foreign Minister Khampan Panya took a step that his government had desperately hoped to avoid, directed an urgent appeal to the U.N. Cabled Khampan: "In face of this fagrant aggression, for which [North] Viet Nam must bear the entire responsibility . . . the Royal Laotian Government requests the prompt dispatch of a [U.N.] emergency force...
Senator Dodd put in just a few short words the real feeling of the American people, and also he has in a way shown us how to accept Khrushchev's arrival. The one thing the American people should avoid is mass cheers and greetings...
...soaring. In the redistricting that will follow the 1960 census, Arkansas stands to lose two of its six House seats. With the state legislature under his control. Governor Orval Faubus will have the power to redistrict Wilbur Mills right out of the House, so Mills has had to avoid offending Faubus. Bowing to Faubus, Mills has been conspicuously protective toward Arkansas Congressman Dale Alford, outspoken segregationist, who was narrowly elected last November as a Faubus-backed write-in candidate.* Mills's friends sadly point out that Northern Democrats would never choose as Speaker a man regarded as being under...
Whether or not Jimmy Hoffa would comply was another matter; so far, he has managed to avoid carrying out nearly all of the monitors' 54 recommendations...