Word: bring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Everett McKinley Dirksen pointed out that immediate Senate action was inconsequential since the House had not even taken up the bill. Colorado's Gordon Allott sniffed that a billion dollars was not to be lightly allocated in the course of one afternoon. Recounting noses, Knowland decided to bring his motion to a vote, carried it by a narrow...
...overwhelming" opposition to the general wage boosts urged by the A.F.L.C.I.O. leaders stems from the public conviction that higher wages would only bring on higher prices. Women are more sensitive to inflation than men are, and white-collar workers more than factory workers. But even factory workers feel that "wages are high enough, if only prices can be kept from going up." "So strong is this yearning," Lubell reports, that some people favor a federal wage-price freeze...
...privately consulted on a city zoning matter in which he had a possible interest. "It's just another attempt to smear me," retorted Stevens, whose nerves were already jangled because his vending-machine business is in deep trouble with the state sales-tax authorities. "I would hate to bring up the thousands of people who have conferred with Commissioner Howse on matters like this." Mayor E. E. Baird banged his gavel, declared the meeting in recess...
Next day, from the state capital at Topeka, came cluck-clucks from Democratic Governor George Docking. "I'm glad I don't live in Wichita." said he. "All this is embarrassing, particularly when we are trying to bring in new industries." The Wichita Eagle and the Beacon both called for Stevens' resignation. His Lebanese-American friends* rallied to his support. The old-time reformers suggested that the whole city commission-city manager form of government, pioneered by Wichita back in 1916, ought to be junked in favor of oldfashioned, relatively disciplined "partisan government...
...federal police reinforcements, who used tear gas and gunfire to break up the raging mobs, killing two and arresting 296 of the rioters. At week's end. Ibadan was still under a state of emergency. But Adelabu was dead and buried, and neither riot nor witchcraft could bring him back alive...