Word: consents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rules Committee and tactical leader of the Southern group, could make any headway against the coalition. At one point, Smith proposed that the highly controversial public accommodations section of the bill be amended to read that no one could be required to "render labor or service without his consent." This, Smith said, "merely implemented" the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits slavery. Smith dared civil rights backers to vote, in effect, for slavery by opposing his amendment. "Go ahead and vote against it," he cried. "I defy you to." They...
Specifically, the report asks that the HSA general manager be selected by the University with the consent of the HSA Board of Directors, and that the Director of Student Employment be chairman of the HSA Board. The committee rejected the idea of separating the HSA itself from the University asserting that Harvard should retain in active interest in HSA affairs...
Despite the Committee decision, the Senate agreed by unanimous consent Friday to debate the bill for no more than five hours today and to vote on the measure Tuesday after a maximum of one hour debate...
Even if the Senate does approve it, the measure faces a bleak future in the House, where it would have to win the approval or at least the consent of Rep. Wilbur D. Mills (D-Ark.). Mills has traditionally opposed similar bills, and the House in general lacks enthusiasm for any fiscal measure initiated in the Senate...
...succeeded his longtime friend last year, Woods recognized that the bank had undergone its own form of population explosion; it now numbers among its 101 members many who need education and improved agriculture more than dams or steel mills. Woods convinced his directors that they should unbend and consent to bankroll such unaccustomed projects as schools and farms. Annual loan totals, as a result, have soared from $646 million in 1962 to $788 million last year, and the bank's 1963 earnings reached a record of $89 million. Now Woods reads his latest progress reports as avidly...