Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lawyers have challenged the government's case on a number of grounds: the scope of the authority of the Government Operations Committee of the Senate under the legislative reorganization act of 1946; the pertinency of the investigators' questions; the motives and objectives of Senator McCarthy's subcommittee; the conduct of the particular hearings at which Professor Furry testified in January, 1954; the presence of television cameras in the learning room...
...past," Reece said on the floor of the House, "the majority (of these foundations) have justified their tax exemptions, even though the probable cost to the taxpayers runs into the billions. Certainly, the Congress has a right and a duty to inquire into the purposes and the conduct of institutions to which taxpayers have made such great sacrifices...
Hortense Ford arrived at a Ventura (Calif.) reform school when she was 19; her illegitimate daughter Barbara made it when she was 14. After two years in the reformatory, Barbara married, became a "sea gull," i.e., a fleet follower in San Diego. She was convicted of perjury, prostitution, lewd conduct, vagrancy; she had four husbands, three sons. In 1953 she was arrested in a room with Emmett Perkins and Jack Santo, who were suspects in six murder cases. Barbara had a narcotic user's scars on her arms and a new charge on her record: murder. A witness testified...
...over 1955) and elected the Rev. Dr. Caspar C. Warren of the First Baptist Church in Charlotte, N.C. as convention president. Under the eyes of a delegation of nine Baptists from the U.S.S.R., the convention passed a resolution to congratulate President Eisenhower for his "patient diplomatic conduct," urged a "more determined effort" at armament reduction and elimination of atomic, weapons...
...place to hang their hats. They met intermittently, lacked even an adequate secretariat. Earlier this year they decided to set up a permanent secretariat, the Organization for Trade Cooperation, to keep records of rate agreements, provide a forum for participating countries, make arrangements for negotiations, etc. But OTC would conduct no negotiations on tariffs or trade, leave that up to delegates from interested countries...