Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Decision Week. In fact, a compromise had seemed imminent until the President's news-conference tirade. "The President can propose," he said, "but the Congress must dispose. I proposed a budget. If they don't like that budget, then stand up like men and answer the roll call and cut what they think ought to be cut. Then the President will exercise his responsibility of approving it or rejecting it and vetoing it." He went so far as to accuse conservatives of holding up the tax bill so that they could "blackmail" him into approving cuts-almost...
...bill," said Roosevelt, "but a tax-relief bill, not for the needy but the greedy. . ." Beyond that, he said, Congress had been sloppy in writing the bill, "using language which not even a dictionary or a thesaurus can make clear...
Gradually, however, Negro militancy paid off. White merchants, disturbed by a black Christmas-shopping boycott, helped to pressure the Common Council into enacting an open-occupancy statute that matched a state law and covered some 33% of the city's housing units. When Congress last month passed the federal open-housing bill in the aftermath of the riot-commission report and Martin Luther King's assassination, Mayor Henry Maier asked the council for an ordinance to keep pace with the federal...
Died. Sir Harold Nicolson, 81, Britain's brilliant historian (The Congress of Vienna) and diarist, who in Volumes I (1930-39) and II (1939-45) of Diaries and Letters gave a penetrating analysis of the Establishment; in Kent, England. Husband of the late novelist Vita Sackville-West and son of a Brit ish lord, Nicolson moved with ease through the rooms at the top, recording with candor and wit the intrigues and personalities of Europe's destiny shapers. He was devoted to Churchill, disdainful of De Gaulle, yet found nearly everyone fascinating. "Only one person in a thousand...
Unless the U.S. can offset this prospective shortfall, it will lead to a rise in the dollar-weakening balance of payments deficit and renewed peril for the free world's monetary and trade system. Chances of improvement seem slim. Congress has shelved the President's proposals to curb tourist spending abroad; rising costs of the Viet Nam war could forestall Government promises to curtail its spending overseas. Thus, it was hardly a surprise last week when the free-market price of gold -a seismograph of foreign anxieties over the dollar-inched up to $39.60 per oz., its peak...