Word: cosponsor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economy of our country." Back he went to the Senate to show what a man of action could do. He introduced a bill setting up an eleven-member, legislative-executive unemployment fact-finding commission. Scarcely three hours after the bill was hoppered. 68 Senators had stepped forward to cosponsor. A remarkably brief 48 hours later, the resolution sailed through by voice vote, and liberals, squawkers and other doubters were put on notice the Johnson way that the majority leader was still the man in control...
...chairman of the Columbia College Student Board, Bernard Tucker, has invited Ivy League, Little Three, and Seven-College Conference colleges to send delegates to a student governmental seminar sometime in December. Marc E. Leland '59, local Council president, said yesterday that his group would probably cosponsor the meeting...
Back home, he learned that California's Stanford Research Institute had similar ideas and would be a willing partner in a meeting to stimulate international investment. S.R.I., a corporation founded by Western U.S. businessmen to research industrial, economic and scientific problems, was an ideal cosponsor. Baker and S.R.I.'s Dr. Weldon Gibson agreed that TLI and S.R.I, together might arrange a conference encompassing the whole world...
...There's Godfrey, drunk again.' " <¶Ed Sullivan, tabbed by the late Fred Allen to "last as long as other people have talent," celebrated the ninth anniversary of his Sunday-evening variety show. When it seemed that the occasion would be blighted by the decision of his cosponsor, Lincoln cars, to cancel its share of the CBS show, Sullivan quickly found another, Eastman Kodak, eager to split the annual $10 million tab with Mercury cars. He also found a staunch defender when New York Herald Tribune Critic John Crosby wrote of his TV longevity: "There is a great...
...balance of power" between Congress and the President and "completely hamstring" the conduct of foreign relations, and Wisconsin's Senator Alexander Wiley calls the amendment "the most dangerous thing that has ever been brought before Congress." But 44 other Republican Senators (and 19 Democratic Senators) agreed to cosponsor the Bricker Amendment. Several state bar associations have endorsed it, but the New York State Bar Association denounces it as "unnecessary, unwise, divisive and dangerous...