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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broad a sweep for a bill which the Justice Department had advertised as a right-to-vote bill. When New Mexico's liberal Democrat Clinton Anderson expressed doubts about Part III, Johnson encouraged Anderson to write down his doubts in a compromising amendment, encouraged him also to confer with Vermont's sturdy liberal Republican George Aiken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Third Force | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

LORD TIMOTHY DEXTER of Newburyport, Mass. Realizing, as no stuffy conformist would, that the quickest way to become a U.S. peer is to confer the title on oneself, Dexter sensibly did just that. "It is the voise of the peopel," he explained in his firm, aristocratic prose, "and I cant Help it and ... it dont hurt A Cat ..." Born in 1747, America's first peer started life "Dressin of skins for briches & glovs," would probably never have grown too big for his briches had he not spent every penny of his savings buying up U.S. "Continentals" and state securities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man's Last Chance | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...cutoff date put off until they can build up their stockpile of bombs. Some NATO countries-France, Belgium, The Netherlands and West Germany-are none too happy over being included in the trial aerial-inspection zone. At week's end Stassen flew over to Paris to confer with NATO's council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISARMAMENT: Dueling Code | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

Telephone Conference. Bell Telephone ,aboratories, Inc. has developed a new telephone system that permits five executives to confer at one time when a code number is dialed. The system, using no operators, can handle 90 different combinations, can also stack up to three incoming calls on a busy phone and ring through in order of placement, permits any one of the conferees to call someone outside and bring him into the conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jul. 8, 1957 | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

Members of the Eliot Drama Group will confer with Dean Watson today to discuss the feasibility of reviving Richard II for a two-day run during Commencement Week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Drama Group To Ask Permission For Restaging Play | 5/21/1957 | See Source »

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