Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Following Washington's advice about "entangling alliances" the Student Council withdrew from the National Student Association, a move which aroused student apathy. A few weeks later, the first of several questionable elections was held, and nearly half of the college voted on the issue, some perhaps more times than others...
Paved with Good Intentions? In Woodcliff Lake, N.J., the mayor and council approved a proposal initiated by the Rev. James I. Opsal, changed the name of the street beside the site of his new Lutheran church from Dam Road to Church Road...
...cannot be balanced out of current income. From the House, Speaker Sam Rayburn allowed that Ike's request for an increase in gasoline taxes (from 3? to 4½?) would get a "pretty cold reception." On the spend-and-spend side was a bulletin from the Democratic Advisory Council (Averell Harriman, Adlai Stevenson, Harry S. Truman, et al.) that damned the budget provisions as "weak and inadequate . . . Pocketbook before people . . . Close to being a fraud on the American people...
...creating an inter-agency Committee on Government Activities Affecting Prices and Costs and 2) naming his economic adviser, Raymond Saulnier, as its chairman. ¶ Accepted the resignation of his assistant for federal-state relations: Arizona's ex-Governor Howard Pyle, who is leaving to head the National Safety Council. ¶ Held a get-together with brothers Edgar (Tacoma lawyer), Earl (general manager of an Illinois newspaper chain), and Milton (president of Johns Hopkins University) to celebrate Edgar's 70th birthday. ¶ Boosted the U.S. exhibition that is to be held in Moscow's Sokolniki Park next summer...
...problem is one that bothers every new nation -reconciling the need for system and order with democratic procedures when no one has much experience in such matters. Worked out in collaboration with his able Prime Minister Djuanda and National Council Chief Ruslan Abdulgani...