Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Question Is . . ." Mansfield's time ran out, and he relinquished the floor to Georgia's Richard Brevard Russell, leader of the Democratic bloc that had been filibustering against the most far-reaching civil rights bill in U.S. history. Russell was about to go down in defeat, and he knew it. But his final-hour plea was urgent. Said he: "If this bill is enacted into law, next year we will be confronted with new demands for enactment of further legislation in this field, such as laws requiring open housing and the bussing of children. The country is becoming enmeshed...
...chief industrial producers of Eastern Europe's Communist world. Under this plan, Rumania, with its oil and farm produce, would have remained largely a provider of raw materials. Rumanian Communist Boss Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, wanting industries of his own, said no to Nikita. Looking outside the Soviet bloc, he proceeded to purchase iron ore from India and turned to an Anglo-French consortium for a $40 million steel-rolling mill plant at Galati, in the heart of Rumania's budding industrial region. Soon Rumania's trade with the West rose from 15% to 40%. Now there...
Kubitschek's PSD party immediately withdrew its support from the government majority bloc in Congress, reducing the bloc to a minority with only one-third of the votes. The government's extreme action also drove the PSD back into its old alliance with the Labor Party of deposed President Joao Goulart. Through it all, the revolutionary government of Humberto Castello Branco stood its ground, stolidly went ahead with still another "purge" list that may run to 500 names...
...West Side Bloc. The situation was this: for years, the balance of power in the closely divided Illinois assembly has been held by a handful of nominal Republicans, most of them coming from Cook County and, for the sake of reelection, more than willing to play footsie with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic machine. It was with the help of this group that in 1961 the assembly, although it had a narrow Republican majority, nonetheless elected a Democratic speaker. The so-called "West Side bloc" also gave the state Republican Party a bad image by standing steadfastly against...
...there is every chance that a vast majority of citizens will save themselves trouble by voting straight tickets. Thus Percy spotted a chance not only to enhance his own candidacy but to end up as Governor with a genuine Republican assembly by cleansing the G.O.P. slate of West Side bloc leaders. And that is what he set out to do. "We have a special problem in Illinois that beclouds our reputation and helps keep Republicans at home," he said. "I mean the West Side bloc...