Word: countings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Factions and Fractions. There was good reason for disappointment. With Congress on the verge of adjourning, the President at last count had seen only 15.8% of this session's proposals passed, large and small. In 1956 Ike's record stood at 45.7%; in the halcyon days of 1953 it was a whopping 72.7%. There was precedent for this downward trend of the percentages. Harry Truman, battling violently against his final Democratic Congress, managed to push, pull and maneuver through only a fraction of his requests. And Franklin Roosevelt, in his later terms, had to deal with a Democratic...
Proxmire, a chronic candidate who has yet to win statewide office, has more than Boyle's candidacy to hearten him. He has received the endorsement of the state's labor organizations in a move that was more anti-Kohler than it was pro-Proxmire. He can also count on the return to the fold of Democrats who filled out Republican primary ballots, voted for Kohler to lessen the chance of a conservative Republican's winning. Kohler forces, who had expected to win in a walk, were running scared. "Every vote for Boyle," warned a Kohler lieutenant ominously...
...Stabilization Fund and run through its $500 million European Payments Union loan; the $300 million advanced a month ago from the Bank of France's precious gold reserves "will not last beyond the end of September." For the first time since World War II France can no longer count on generous transfusions ($5.5 billions in U.S. aid since...
...latest wave of arrests, septuagenarians lead all the rest. The Reds have seized a count who was once the head of Hungary's Boy Scouts and has been an invalid for seven years, as well as Horthy's aged Minister of Industry, and the onetime head of the Hungarian manufacturers' association. Tied to this "Horthy plot" was a group of Roman Catholic priests, also rounded up. Among them was Father Egon Albert Turcsanyi, onetime secretary to Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, who is accused of leading an armed group to steal documents from the State Church Office...
...possible effect on the vital tourist trade. Although only 10% of U.S. tourists pulled out, the government tried to play down the earthquake. Official figures put the national death total at 67, and even when eleven more bodies were unearthed in Mexico City one day last week, the official count stayed the same. More likely fatality figures: about 200, all but 50 in Mexico City...