Word: congress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shacklette testified at a court hearing on motions to throw out contempt of Congress charges against Goldfine...
Last month the work won the American Theater Wing's "Tony" award as the year's best play. MacLeish, former librarian of Congress, won Pulitzer prizes for poetry...
...signs, Mao's government was more firmly in the saddle than any government the Chinese people have known for two centuries past. Yet the undertones of uneasiness occasionally audible in the proceedings of the National People's Congress carried with them the possibility that in some circumstances unforeseeable now the whole thing could come a cropper: a desperate people, overworked, underfed, a trivial incident of defiance, a single lapse of authority-such as an army unit's refusal to fire on a handful of insubordinate peasants in a commune-might set off a chain reaction...
What changed Muñoz' mind was an upsurge of statehood sentiment after admission to the Union of Hawaii, which is also a racially dissimilar, noncontiguous U.S. possession. As a first step, he promised to request the island legislature to pass a resolution asking the U.S. Congress to grant whatever status the Puerto Rican people may choose in a plebiscite. Muñoz' proposal seems to be the proper start: U.S.-Puerto Rico relations are regulated by a compact that can be changed only by mutual consent. It also set the stage for a hot argument in Congress...
Blaming Profits. Congress also was beginning to dig into prices. One big reason they are so high, believe Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver and Wyoming's Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, is the "administered price," which largely ignores demand in deference to industry's effort to improve profits. Last week the Senate antitrust subcommittee, headed by Senator Kefauver, held hearings on a bill introduced by Senator O'Mahoney to require companies in highly concentrated industries to give 30 days' advance notice of any price hike...