Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council should to the extent of its powers try to nullify the new constitution, or recommend an act of censure to the members of the Faculty Committee on Student Affairs. To condone such fast and loose plays now is to lay all organizations open to them in the future...
Debate calendar: Saturday. The Democratic Advisory Council-including Harry Truman, Dean Acheson, Adlai Stevenson-put out a razor-sharp statement that the U.S. ought to turn over the Quemoy-Matsu crisis to the U.N., ought to have a plebiscite in Formosa (no mention of the same thing for Red China), also slashed at "world-ambulating" Secretary of State Dulles for dragging the U.S. to "the brink of having to fight a nuclear war." The Advisory Council's added point (later opposed by Harry Truman): although there may be dangerous times when an opposition ought to keep quiet, the Quemoy...
...national Democratic faith, and Hayworth found himself accused of treason. Big Labor refused to back Hayworth against Chamberlain in 1956, this year entered the Democratic primary against Hayworth with its own candidate. Hayworth headquarters accused the labor leaders of "Nazi-like" action, and Flint's C.I.O. Council President Norman Bully roared in rage: "It is the straw that breaks the camel's back! Anybody who can compare the unions with the Nazis is not a friend of labor." Hayworth easily won the primary, but Big Labor's billboards in the Sixth District list all major Democratic candidates...
...today is older, brighter and more serious than in past years, and the average college must hustle to keep up with the change. The report, They Come for the Best of Reasons, written by Columbia University Professor W. Max Wise for a panel of educators sponsored by the American Council on Education, sifts views and statistics on the present college generation. Highlights...
...economy, as measured by the gross national product, has climbed almost back to its alltime high. So Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks told the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Council last week at Hot Springs, Va. On top of the fact that the gross national product rate in July-September apparently was around $440 billion, v. the recession's low of $425.8 billion in January-March, Weeks predicted that the final-quarter G.N.P. rate will hit $450 billion, v. the prerecession peak of $445.6 billion in the summer of 1957-and go even higher...