Word: bill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bill Brooks, the present varsity coach, called Adams "one of the most remarkable swimmers in the country this year...
...developed an impressively efficient lobbying machine. Financed by dues ranging from $5 to $100 a year, it maintains offices in Washington and several states, puts out a bimonthly newspaper called Freedom in Education. Through its local chapters, CEF issues calls for public pressure on legislators whenever a bill affecting nonpublic schools is at issue; its supporters faithfully respond by inundating lawmakers with telegrams and letters. One day last November, Pennsylvania Governor Raymond Shafer was deluged with 100,000 telegrams from CEF enthusiasts supporting a parochial pupil aid bill. The Michigan CEF arranged for Catholic schools to give students a homework...
...public school system. Many Protestant church leaders have equally strong feelings about it. In Providence, R.I., this month, the Rev. C. Clifford Sargent, superintendent of the Methodist district, asked that a message be read from the district's pulpits urging defeat of the Rhode Island tuition grant bill. In Pennsylvania, state aid to parochial schools has been opposed by a number of religious groups, including the mostly Protestant state Council of Churches...
...remove the "gold cover" that has been in force since 1934. But the vote was close (39 to 37), as conservative Senators who want deeper cuts in non-military spending and liberals who oppose increased spending on Viet Nam joined together in a coalition of protest. Under the bill, to be signed by President Johnson this week, the U.S. need no longer keep $10.4 billion in gold-or most of the total $11.4 billion gold supply the country currently holds-on hand as backing for 25% of the $41.6 billion in paper dollars presently in circulation. Henceforth...
...Tiers. The bill to remove the gold cover seemed to come almost too late to be of use-if only because the Gold Pool itself is likely to be revamped as one result of last week's emergency. The Europeans arriving in Washington-Britain's O'Brien, Hubert Ansiaux of Belgium, Karl Blessing of Germany, Guido Carli of Italy, Jelle Zijlstra of The Netherlands, and Edwin Stopper of Switzerland-favored the view that the time has come to try the "two-tier" system of gold prices that many an economist has been urging. Under the two-tier...