Word: civilities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only-and perhaps not the most important-result of the House labor vote. In the wake of that vote came a split in House Democratic ranks that may well influence the whole legislative course for a long while to come. Although they fight each other on civil rights issues, Northern liberals and Southern conservatives have long scratched each others' backs in other areas: Northerners, for example, have supported such Southern-backed bills as price supports for peanuts, tobacco and cotton, while Southerners have helped put across Northern-sponsored programs for slum clearance, public works and other welfare legislation...
...incorporate their town. The specific purpose of the move was to establish a drive-in draw-poker palace; under California law, only incorporated towns may establish poker parlors. In as Cabazon's mayor went L. D. Tallent-and before long he was also police commissioner, fire commissioner and civil defense commissioner (Kosseff, his usefulness fulfilled, soon sloped back toward Hollywood, later died...
Next day calm returned, and the delegates quietly discussed a straight-shooting definition of intervention, introduced earlier by Colombia's Turbay: supplying weapons to start a civil war, allowing the export or import of such weapons, recruiting and training revolutionaries, permitting radio or TV broadcasts that encourage rebellion in another state...
...that the country could grow. Yet Garcia ruled that non-Catholics might not be citizens, subordinated the state to the church, in 1873 solemnly dedicated Ecuador to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. A leather worker hacked him to death in 1875. For the next 20 years Ecuador floundered through civil war, brigandage and six more dictators...
...Mexico's peppery redheaded entry for the Miss Universe contest who defied Albuquerque Archbishop Edwin V. Byrne's ban on Roman Catholics' entering bathing-suit contests, but finally withdrew; and Sam Francis Jr., 23, pre-law student at the University of New Mexico; in a civil ceremony, in Juarez, Mexico...