Word: broadened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...primary campaigns. Johnson said the proposed bill will provide "stringent" requirements for the reporting of campaign contributions. It will also provide federal tax exemption for up to $100 of individual political contributions. The idea of this is to encourage more people to make comparatively small donations and thus broaden financial participation in election campaigns...
...Graduate School of Education will continue to offer its intensive six-week courses designed expressly for teachers. The program attempts to deepen and broaden teachers' knowledge of their own field...
...National Association of Letter Carriers is working for higher wages; the Clothespin Manufacturers of America is trying to limit imports of foreign clothespins; the Sioux Indian Tribal Council is demanding compensation for lost agricultural and game land; the American Farm Bureau Federation is pressing the Senate Agriculture Committee to broaden Agriculture Secretary Benson's soil-bank plan. As she has for some 50 years, Miss Alice ("The Little Quakeress") Paul is buttonholing Congressmen in her pursuit of equal rights for women...
...Wide expansion of private health-insurance plans for aged and rural people, plus new emphasis on protection for the long-term "catastrophic illnesses" that are not now covered. Reinsurance or pooling of risk, with federal participation if necessary, would encourage insurance companies to broaden their coverage...
...those who wish to broaden their knowledge on a century or so of fashion, Widener offers a number of interesting books. Among the earliest of the informative volumes is Mirror of the Graces whose author preferred to be called "A Lady of Distinction." She is a woman of many platitudes: "If beauty be a woman's weapon, it must be featured by the Graces, pointed by the eye of discretion, and shot by the hand of virtue...