Word: branche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Freedom. Perhaps the best argument against the commissioners is that the eight pioneering judges of the U.S. District Court of Eastern Michigan have done so well without them. Twenty years ago, the Michigan court's Detroit branch banished commissioners because they had become too chummy with bail bondsmen; worse, they often went easier on the clients of crony lawyers, while hiking bail astronomically in response to public pressure whenever grisly crimes hit the headlines...
...show was universally loathed, had no laughs and precious little taste. Surely with all our staff we can do as well. Let me see suggestions on the above items, starting Tuesday. Monday I will be in Chicago delivering a speech to the Advertisers Club on "Creative Imagination in Broadcasting." Branch officers are expected to attend...
...expanding because the burdens of governing are growing too big and too complex for any branch of government to handle efficiently alone. There are dozens of areas, from housing to highways, that the states do not have the money to handle themselves, and hundreds more in which the Federal Government must take the initiative if anything is ever to be done. Though cries are still heard about the freedom-encroaching growth of government-most frequently from the extreme right wing-most Americans have come to accept the fact that big problems require big government. What they are apt to resent...
...longer have a government of 'equal powers' in the field of foreign affairs, if we ever did have. The Congress retains all its power over the purse and it still has the right to review, but the President and the Secretary of State in the Executive Branch are now more than ever before in a position to call the turn. When the President announces to the world that he wants aid for Greece, the Congress does not really have complete freedom of action; it can go along with him or repudicate and humiliate him-and it will hesitate...
...discuss process as well as product. Where his 1944 Pulitzer came for finding out what the government was working on, his second, in 1956, came for figuring out how the government was working. He won the prize for a series of articles on the functioning of the executive branch during President Eisenhower's illness...